Summary

Traffic generated by smart devices is becoming a significant part of the Internet. Smart devices require mobility and guaranteed quality of service (QoS) that needs to be managed. Potentially, software-defined networking- (SDN-) and network function virtualization- (NFV-) based technologies (IMT‑2020) will be used for managing all types of services and therefore, SDN is to be tasked to manage these kinds of demands as well.

A significant number of the available Internet services require the exact value of network parameters such as latency, jitter, round trip time (RTT) and bandwidth. Using SDN capabilities for managing network parameters, will give a possibility to implement new services such as a tactile Internet, augmented reality, e-health applications.

In this regard, the protocol is proposed to ensure the transfer of the network performance requirements requested by an IoT server for IoT applications in SDN- and NFV-based networks in International Mobile Telecommunications-2020 (IMT-2020). This protocol is to be used for interconnection between the IoT server and the orchestrator application layer (management application (MA)).