A Novel Framework for Software Defined Wireless Body Area Network

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new framework integrating Software Defined Networking into Wireless Body Area Networks to improve traffic management, security, and energy efficiency through centralized control and programmability.

Contribution

It proposes a novel conceptual framework for SDWN in WBAN, addressing current challenges by decoupling control and data planes for better management.

Findings

Framework enhances network control and flexibility.

Provides packet flow model for SDWBAN.

Outlines future research directions.

Abstract

Software Defined Networking (SDN) has gained huge popularity in replacing traditional network by offering flexible and dynamic network management. It has drawn significant attention of the researchers from both academia and industries. Particularly, incorporating SDN in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications indicates promising benefits in terms of dealing with challenges like traffic management, authentication, energy efficiency etc. while enhancing administrative control. This paper presents a novel framework for Software Defined WBAN (SDWBAN), which brings the concept of SDN technology into WBAN applications. By decoupling the control plane from data plane and having more programmatic control would assist to overcome the current lacking and challenges of WBAN. Therefore, we provide a conceptual framework for SDWBAN with packet flow model and a future direction of research pertaining to SDWBAN.