Cross-Layer QoS Enabled SDN-Like Publish/Subscribe Communication Infrastructure for IoT  

作　　者：Yulong Shi Yang Zhang Junliang Chen 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology,Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing 100876,China

出　　处：《China Communications》2020年第3期149-167,共19页中国通信（英文版）

基　　金：the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2018YFB1003800).

摘　　要：Publish/subscribe paradigm is often adopted to create the communication infrastructure of the Internet of Things(IoT)for many clients to access enormous real-time sensor data.However,most current publish/subscribe middlewares are based on traditional ossified IP networks,which are difficult to enable Quality of Service(QoS).How to design the next generation publish/subscribe middleware has become an urgent problem.The emerging Software Defined Networking(SDN)provides new opportunities to improve the QoS of publish/subscribe facilities for delivering events in IoT owing to its customized programmability and centralized control.We can encode event topics,priorities and security policies into flow entries of SDN-enabled switches to satisfy personalized QoS needs.In this paper,we propose a cross-layer QoS enabled SDN-like publish/subscribe communication infrastructure,aiming at building an IoT platform to seamlessly connect IoT services with SDN networks and improving the QoS of delivering events.We first present an SDN-like topic-oriented publish/subscribe middleware architecture with a cross-layer QoS control framework.Then we discuss prototype implementation,including topic management,topology maintenance,event routing and policy management.In the end,we use differentiated services and cross-layer access control as cross-layer QoS scenarios to verify the prototype.Experimental results show that our middleware is effective.Publish/subscribe paradigm is often adopted to create the communication infrastructure of the Internet of Things(IoT) for many clients to access enormous real-time sensor data. However, most current publish/subscribe middlewares are based on traditional ossified IP networks, which are difficult to enable Quality of Service(QoS). How to design the next generation publish/subscribe middleware has become an urgent problem. The emerging Software Defined Networking(SDN) provides new opportunities to improve the QoS of publish/subscribe facilities for delivering events in IoT owing to its customized programmability and centralized control. We can encode event topics, priorities and security policies into flow entries of SDN-enabled switches to satisfy personalized QoS needs. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer QoS enabled SDN-like publish/subscribe communication infrastructure, aiming at building an IoT platform to seamlessly connect IoT services with SDN networks and improving the QoS of delivering events. We first present an SDN-like topic-oriented publish/subscribe middleware architecture with a cross-layer QoS control framework. Then we discuss prototype implementation, including topic management, topology maintenance, event routing and policy management. In the end, we use differentiated services and cross-layer access control as cross-layer QoS scenarios to verify the prototype. Experimental results show that our middleware is effective.

关 键 词：IOT PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE software defined NETWORKING quality of service MIDDLEWARE 

分 类 号：TN929.5[电子电信—通信与信息系统] TP391.44[电子电信—信息与通信工程]