Common SDN control channel for seamless handover in 802.11

This article is focused on the area of client mobility in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for 802.11 standards. Recently, there are a few SDN solutions how to perform smooth and fast handover. Usually these solutions are using separated control channel for control 802.11 functionality. In our work, we demonstrate efficiency of common control channels for 802.11 and SDN under Odin framework improvement. Our solution for common control channels is extending OpenFlow protocol. The proposed approach is significantly improving network architecture in following points: network scalability, security and in parallel it supports seamless handover for delay critical scenarios.