SDN, slicing, and NFV paradigms for a smart home: A comprehensive survey

AbstractAbstractLiving in a smart home is an entirely new experience, which enhances our everyday life. Many manufactures and internet of things service providers developed their own smart home services from which the customer can benefit from running a software over his smartphone or tablet. Today, it is becoming increasingly complex for the homeowner to control and manage the growing number of heterogeneous home connected devices through a multitude of available services. Several researchers proposed to improve the home area network design by introducing the software defined networking approach. Although, the software‐defined network (SDN) approach has many advantages, combining it with other approaches like slicing and network function virtualization can give more benefits such as improving the quality of service and the quality of experience, the management, and the control of the network. In this review, we present and discuss recent works that improve the design of the home area network considering SDN or a combination of SDN with slicing and network function virtualization. View Figure The paper gives an overview on Software Defined Home Network designs. Furthermore, it presents and discusses works that combine the use of Slicing and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) with a programmable Home Network in order to improve the control and management of the network as well as the Quality of Service (QoS)/ Quality of Experience (QoE).