Internet of Things Management Based on Software Defined Networking: A Survey

Nowadays, the huge number of smart connected objects and the massive data amount produced require intelligent approaches for their management and supervision. Accordingly, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is considered as a promising paradigm for Internet of things (IoT) management. The IoT is now involved deeply in our daily activities and influences considerably our life style; from the way we drive, to how we make purchases or even what we should eat or not to maintain our health etc. The diversity of IoT related applications necessitates flexible, agile and adaptable IoT architecture. To meet this requirement, the design of IoT architecture based on SDN involves decoupling control plane from data plane to integrating intelligent management functionalities. In this context, this survey highlights the IoT network management functionalities and studies the correlation between SDN and IoT with focuses the role played by SDN to improve the management effectiveness of IoT networks. Furthermore, deep investigation is elaborated related to the SDN-IoT architectures and applications and some open issues and future research directions are provided.