Enabling Wireless Software Defined Networking in Cloud Based Machine-to-Machine Gateway

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) buildup of a large number of devices that are capable of sensing or actuating and provide ubiquitous connectivity and processing to enhance the daily life activities. This paper proposes a wireless Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution for M2M gateway based on the cloud environment. The proposed approach takes the advantage of SDN in separating the control plane from the data plane in network devices and running the software component on centralized M2M gateway connected to the cloud. The proposed approach validated through experimental analysis testbed, the obtained result shows that SD-M2M gateway reduces the end-to-end delay by approximately 23% and 15% compared to M2M gateway without SDN in terms of data gathering and control command sending respectively. The proposed approach provides significant flexibility for network resource management.