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In this page we summarize our experiences while adapting Odin (Initially created by Lalith Suresh) to its use in the H2020 Wi-5 (What to do With the Wi-Fi Wild West) project (Wi5). We are adding some improvements as e.g. the support of multi-channel handoffs.

Odin is an SDN framework programmable enterprise WLANs. It provides a platform for developing typical enterprise WLAN services such as mobility management, load balancing, seamless handover, etc. as "network applications". Our aim is to share experiences and to gather interested people.

If you want to build it, follow the Steps for setting up your own Odin Wi5 Enviroment.

This is the terminology we are using.

These are the Wi-5 applications.

These are the schemes we are using.

This is a list of supported routers.

More information about the Wi-5 Project.

References

You can find some information and results in this research paper. Please refer to it if you are using this software: Luis Sequeira, Juan Luis de la Cruz, Jose Ruiz-Mas, Jose Saldana, Julian Fernandez-Navajas, Jose Luis Almodovar, "Building an SDN Enterprise WLAN Based on Virtual APs," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 374-377, Feb. 2017. doi 10.1109/LCOMM.2016.2623602.

You can find a Presentation here.

Some useful information is available on the Deliverables of the Wi-5 Project, especially in Deliverable 3.1 about monitoring, D3.2 and D3.3, which specify the developed solutions.

The original system is described in the following Masters' thesis: http://lalithsuresh.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/lalith-thesis.pdf

You may find some information in this article: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc14/atc14-paper-schulz_zander.pdf

And this is a presentation: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc14/technical-sessions/presentation/schulz-zandery