A comprehensive survey on software‐defined networking for smart communities

Chaudhary, Rajat; Aujla, Gagangeet Singh; Kumar, Neeraj; Chouhan, Pushpinder Kaur

Abstract

The need to provide services closer to the end-user proximity leads to the exchange of a large volume of data generated from the smart devices deployed at different geo-distributed sites. The massive amount of data generated from the smart devices need to be transmitted, analyzed, and processed. This requires seamless data exchanges among geo-separated nodes, which results in a considerable burden on the underlying network infrastructure and can degrade the performance of any implemented solution. Therefore, a dynamic, agile, and programmable network management paradigm is required. To handle the challenges mentioned above, software-defined networking (SDN) gained much attention from academia, researchers, and industrial sectors. Shifting the computational load from forwarding devices to a logically centralized controller is a dream of every network operator who wants to have complete control and global visibility of the network. Also, the concept of network functions virtualization (NFV) in SDN controller is required to increase resource utilization efficiency. Thus, in this paper, a comprehensive survey on SDN for various smart applications is presented. This survey covers the infrastructural details of SDN hardware and OpenFlow switches, controllers, simulation tools, programming languages, open issues, and challenges in SDN implementation with advanced technologies such as 5G and microservices. In addition, the challenges on the control plane and data plane are highlighted in detail, such as fault tolerance, routing, scheduling of flows, and energy consumption on OpenFlow switches. Finally, various open issues and challenges future scope of SDN are discussed and analyzed in the proposal.

Citation

Chaudhary, R., Aujla, G. S., Kumar, N., & Chouhan, P. K. (online). A comprehensive survey on software‐defined networking for smart communities. International Journal of Communication Systems, https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.5296

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 15, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Jul 18, 2022
• Publication Date: Jul 18, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jul 27, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 27, 2022
• Journal: International Journal of Communication Systems
• Print ISSN: 1074-5351
• Electronic ISSN: 1099-1131
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.5296
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1199368