Table 1 SDWN controller responsibilities

Handover control

∙ Mobility accounting

∙ IEEE 802.21

∙ Mobility prediction

∙ Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6)

∙ Data flow orchestration

∙ Transparency

Interference control

∙ Intra-cell interference cognition

∙ Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC)

∙ Inter-cell interference cognition

∙ Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP)

∙ Interference avoidance orchestration

∙ Almost Blank Subframe (ABS)

∙ Control channel pollution minimization

Radio resource allocation

∙ Calculate radio resource allocation

∙ eICIC

∙ UEs associated per RRH and BS

∙ CoMP

∙ Software-Defined Radio (SDR)

∙ Cooperative radio resource control

∙ Cooperative self-organized networking

Sharing control

∙ Frequency bands division

∙ Biding and Auction House

∙ Access granting

∙ Licensed Shared Access (LSA)

∙ Accounting

∙ Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA)

∙ Policy assurance

Network orchestration

∙ Data-flow management

∙ Control And Provisioning of Wireless

∙ Data-flow redundancy

Access Points (CAPWAP)

∙ Cell association control

∙ OpenFlow

∙ Admission Control

∙ LTE-Self Organized Network

Energy control

∙ Configure maximum transmission power

∙ Remote energy control mechanism

∙ Switch On/Off devices

∙ Wake up mechanism

∙ Co-channel maximum transmission power

∙ Transmission power control through SDR