QoS Management for WiFi MAC Layer Processing in the Cloud: Demo Description

Abstract

We present a demo of Quality of Service Management for CloudMAC, which combines SDN with NFV for processing WLAN MAC layer management frames in the Cloud. With CloudMAC, enterprise WLANs can be managed in the cloud which enables simple support for authentication, authorization and accounting, or mobility management. With CloudMAC, clients are associated with Virtual Machines and mobility management is simplified by updating OpenFlow forwarding rules. This enables seamless mobility. While CloudMAC works with standard WLAN clients, CloudMAC APs are very lightweight. In this demo, we show how we can manage different QoS classes in SDN enabled networks which allows a flexible WLAN MAC frame prioritisation. As an example, we implement 802.11ae based WLAN MAC management frame priorization in both the SDN network and the CloudMAC lightweight APs.