Efficient Flow Instantiation via Source Routing in Software Defined Vehicular Networks

Abstract

Software Defined Vehicular Networks (SDVN) brings a set of attractive features to vehicular networks along with an upgrade in the performance. Yet, SDVN suffers from frequently compelling to contact the centralized control plane, which in turn generates a high latency and packet overhead in the communication. The current solution to reduce the delay, proactive approach, does not bring the packet overhead down and impose a lot of stress on the controller with a decline of Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR). As an alternative, we introduce a source routing based flow instantiation operation with intelligent route caching that reduces the extent of communication with the control plane, but still manages to utilize the knowledge of controller while maintaining a lower latency and packet overhead.