On the Tradeoff between Performance and Programmability for Software Defined WiFi Networks

<div>Maximum network throughput with <svg height="8.39864pt" id="M5" style="vertical-align:-0.04981995pt" version="1.1" viewbox="-0.0498162 -8.34882 12.6264 8.39864" width="12.6264pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,0,0)"><path d="M412 140C382 77 369 73 315 73H129L270 222C362 320 402 379 402 466C402 571 322 635 234 635C177 635 130 609 99 576L42 495L64 475C90 514 133 568 201 568C274 568 318 519 318 435C318 349 255 267 193 193C144 135 87 78 32 23V0H405C417 45 427 89 440 131L412 140Z" id="g113-51"></path></g><g transform="matrix(.013,0,0,-0.013,6.24,0)"><path d="M456 178V225H360V632H320C217 496 115 347 20 206V178H280V106C280 40 276 34 189 27V0H445V27C364 34 360 39 360 106V178H456ZM280 225H82C149 335 214 431 278 520H280V225Z" id="g113-53"></path></g></svg> clients: UDP versus TCP. Outer bar (blue bar) depicts the throughput for UDP flows and the inner bar shows the throughput of TCP flows.</div>

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Figure 9: On the Tradeoff between Performance and Programmability for Software Defined WiFi Networks 