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arXiv2020

Flexible IoT Datapath Programming using P4

The progress of the network and device technologies enables any device to be connected to the Internet thereby forming an Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. Internet-related activities based on the IoT services can inevitably generate a lot of real-time data which leads a big data phenomenon. To efficiently handle such big IoT data, software-defined networking (SDN) techniques could come into play. Among SDN techniques, P4 is a highlevel language for programming protocol-independent packet processors. This paper presents our preliminary work on how we can use P4 to achieve flexible datapath programming for large scale IoT streaming data streaming. As a case study, we describe the implementation of dynamic MST-based datapath programing for IoT data collection in an arbitrary network topology.

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arXiv2019

FLIP:FLexible IoT Path Programming Framework for Large-scale IoT

With the rapid increase in smart objects forming IoT fabric, it is inevitable to see billions of devices connected together, forming large-scale IoT networks. This expeditious increase in IoT devices is giving rise to increased user requirements and network complexity. Collecting big data from these IoT devices with optimal network utilization and simplicity is becoming more and more challenging. This paper proposes FLIP- FLexible IoT Path Programming Framework for Large-scale IoT. The distinctive feature of FLIP is that it focuses on the IoT fabric from the perspective of user requirements and uses SDN techniques along with DPI technology to efficiently fulfill the user requirements and establish datapath in the network in an automated and distributed manner. FLIP utilizes SDN structure to optimize network utilization through in-network computing and automated datapath establishment, also hiding network complexity along the way. We evaluated our framework through experiments, and results indicate that FLIP has the potential to fulfill user requirements in an automated fashion and optimize network utilization.

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