Otimização de Tráfego IoT-LoRaWAN Usando Programação de Plano de Dados em P4

• Alexandre Heideker UFABC
• Dener Silva UFABC
• João Henrique Kleinschmidt UFABC
• Carlos Kamienski UFABC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc.2023.504

Abstract

The rapid adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies generates a growing demand for solutions that guarantee the scalability of applications. The ever-increasing number of IoT devices generates a proportional increase in traffic at the network’s edge. Data plane programming allows network devices, sometimes intended for specific and well-defined functions, to behave in a non-standard way, paving the way for new approaches to deal with traffic. This paper presents an IoT-LoRaWAN traffic optimization solution using a filter implemented in the P4 language for the data plane on the P4Pi platform. The experimental results show that the LoRaWAN P4 filter decreases the CPU load, delay, and packet loss, proving the viability of programming in the data plane to make the network edge more versatile.

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