Mobi-Flow: Mobility-Aware Adaptive Flow-Rule Placement in Software-Defined Access Network

In this paper, we propose a mobility-aware adaptive flow-rule placement scheme, named as Mobi-Flow, with an aim to maximize the overall performance in a software-defined access network (SDAN). The proposed scheme consists of two components - path estimator and flow-manager. The path estimator predicts future locations of end-users present in the network, depending on their history location sets, and delivers the predicted locations to the...