Um arcabouço cross-layer para controle de sessões multiusuário com alta demanda de recursos em redes IoT softwarizadas

Abstract

Mission Critical Applications (AMC) represent one of the most promising use cases in the Internet of Things (IoT) as they promise to impact vital areas, such as smart surveillance in environments with high human density, autonomous vehicle traffic with security, remote surgery with precision, among many others. AMC are expected to exploit the content made available by IoT platforms in softwarized IoT networks (IoTS) scenarios, which represents an IoT system running over a network infrastructure which includes software-defined network substrate to allow flexibility in control operations. However, AMCs have strong Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, such as latency, jitter and losses, as well as the high demand for network resources (e.g., node processing, paths and link bandwidth) that need to be guaranteed by IoTS to ensure efficiency and accuracy. The variability and dynamicity of service requirements in this scenario are very high, ranging from scalar data collection (e.g., environmental sensors, etc.) to digital multimedia (e.g., video and audio) processing in real time. In this IoTS scenario with QoS-sensitive AMC, it is necessary to have a control plan with the capacity to provide a fine-grained transport service with guaranteed quality, in an optimized and autonomous way. This thesis goes beyond the state of the art by defining a holistic framework for controlling multiuser sessions (aggregating multiple AMCs sharing content from an IoT platform) highly quality-sensitive in an IoTS, with fine-grained methods for quality-oriented self-organized orchestration, resource control and management. The framework, called CLASSICO (Cross-LAyer SDN SessIon COntrol), allows to couple IoTS variability and dynamicity, dynamically allocating resources to meet AMC requirements regarding high bandwidth and very low latencies throughout the session duration, leveraging the substrate of the Software Defined Networks (SDN) for flexibility and modularity. To achieve these objectives, CLASSICO defines a cross-layer control plan integrated with IoTS that considers the content parameters (at the application level) required by the AMC to build and maintain QoS-oriented multiuser sessions, and induces an optimized multiuser IoTS through group-based transport (at the network level), while increasing the scalability of the IoT system. For validation purposes, CLASSICO has been prototyped and evaluated on a real testbed in a video use case. The results of the evaluation reveal the gains of CLASSICO regarding QoS and Quality of Experience (QoE), in comparison to an SDN Multicast-based solution.