Deep Learning-based AP Selection Method in Software-defined Networks

In the Software Defined Network (SDN), the terminal has been connected to the network in the process when an access point failure or damage, if the access point is not properly selected, it will lead to a decline in the quality of service applications. To address this problem, most traditional AP selection methods use access point selection based on received signal strength without take into account the channel and channel capacity of the access point access, while this paper uses Deep Neural Networks (DNN)-based access point (AP) selection method and considers the channel and channel capacity as part of the parameters. In the SDN controller, the received signal strength, throughput, number of connected devices, channel, and the channel capacity and access point performance quality are used as the input and label of the DNN, respectively. The analysis and simulation results show that the algorithm can select AP with better performance quality compared with the traditional AP selection method based on received signal strength, and the correct rate is significantly improved by 5% when compared with the AP selection method based on feedforward neural network. Meanwhile, the DNN-based access point selection method in SDN achieves flexible control of network traffic and balances the load of access points in the network.