Sustainable massive data dissemination by using software defined connectivity approach

The traditional world has transformed into a digital society where almost anything can be accessed from anywhere. However, this digital society is responsible for an explosive growth of high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets, with high demand for “Big Data”. A Software Defined Connectivity (SDC) is an emerging paradigm, which promises to simplify network management, to provide the flexibility to program the network through centralized network control by providing new abstractions in networking with all real objects for reliable and energy efficient data transmission. In a SDC architecture, the connectivity controller decides the forwarding rules as per the demands and objectives of users when transmitting information to the intended destination through either internet or existing transport infrastructure. The key idea is to have flexibility in the network to utilize existing transport infrastructure to shift traffic from the internet towards public bus services as per the current users requirements. The numerical studies reported in this paper confirm that this new opportunity helps to achieve efficient resource utilization and high performance with significant savings of energy.