The evolvable nature of software defined wireless networking offers great opportunities toward the design and implementation of a low-cost network testbed for smart home. Programmability is an essential component on a network gateway to enable efficient management of energy and other network resources for secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions. In this paper, we proposed a software defined edge-cloud network architecture for smart home. We studied the programmable features of several popular SoC and FPGA platforms and design a software defined wireless network testbed for smart home by integrating several open-source projects including OpenWrt, Lede, and OpenFlow, which may be extended for other application scenarios such as smart grid and Internet-of-Things. We implemented WiFi, BLE, and ZigBee networking features on our low-cost FPGA and SoC platforms and evaluated the TCP and UDP throughput on our testbed. We conducted a series of experiments on our testbed and examined optimization issues based on recent developments in SDN. Our testbed may provide experiment supports for advancing smart home research and development.
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Nsunza, W. W., Rutunda, S., & Hei, X. (2017). Design and implementation of a low-cost software defined wireless network testbed for smart home. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10658 LNCS, pp. 379–388). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72395-2_35
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