An Experimental Evaluation of Urban Networking using IEEE 802.11 Technology

Solarski, Marcin; Vidales, Pablo; Schneider, O.; Zerfos, Petros; Singh, Jatinder

doi:10.1109/woacn.2006.337191

Cited by 19 publications

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“…To do this, we use results from empirical measurements of the WiFi capacity [17]. The authors evaluate the fluctuation of the upload/download throughput perceived by the user in several urban environments.…”

Section: E 3g and Wifi Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Cellular Traffic Offloading through WiFi Networks

Dimatteo

Hui

Han

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems

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Abstract-Cellular networks are currently facing the challenges of mobile data explosion. High-end mobile phones and laptops double their mobile data traffic every year and this trend is expected to continue given the rapid development of mobile social applications. It is imperative that novel architectures be developed to handle such voluminous mobile data. In this paper, we propose and evaluate an integrated architecture exploiting the opportunistic networking paradigm to migrate data traffic from cellular networks to metropolitan WiFi access points (APs). To quantify the benefits of deploying such an architecture, we consider the case of bulk file transfer and video streaming over 3G networks and simulate data delivery using real mobility data set of 500 taxis in an urban area. We are the first to quantitatively evaluate the gains of citywide WiFi offloading using large scale real traces. Our results give the numbers of APs needed for different requirements of quality of service for data delivery in large metropolitan area. We show that even with a sparse WiFi network the delivery performance can be significantly improved. This effort serves as an important feasibility study and provides guidelines for operators to evaluate the possibility and cost of this solution.

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Section: E 3g and Wifi Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Cellular Traffic Offloading through WiFi Networks

Dimatteo

Hui

Han

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Sensor Systems

277

154

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“…multipath fading, co-channel signal interference, high variations in RSSI, and topological obstacles. Many of these technical challenges are mentioned in [21] via presenting the networking performance of IEEE 802.11 technology in urban settings. …”

Section: A Wireless Mesh Network (Wmn)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, the sophisticated structure of urban environments may lead to unexpected performance deficiencies [21]. Hence, having an unplanned network runs the risk of degraded performance during operation time.…”

Section: A Provisioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Survey of Experimental Evaluation Studies for Wireless Mesh Network Deployments in Urban Areas Towards Ubiquitous Internet

Vural

Wei²,

Moessner

2013

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-Establishing wireless networks in urban areas that can provide ubiquitous Internet access to end-users is a central part of the efforts towards defining the Internet of the future. In recent years, wireless mesh network (WMN) backbone infrastructures are proposed as a cost effective technology to provide city-wide Internet access. Studies that evaluate the performance of city-wide mesh network deployments via experiments provide essential information on various challenges of building them. In this survey, we particularly focus on such studies and provide brief conclusions on the problems, benefits, and future research directions of city-wide WMNs.

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“…Wireless Technology Capability to share resources [11], [2] Resource Sharing Framework [10] Incentives Algorithms Security [9] Investigated (at least to an extend)…”

Section: Broadband Access Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Point i) above has been mainly studied with respect to the current wireless technologies, namely IEEE 802.11 and its performance when one of the wirelessly connected users is far away from an AP (e.g., [11], [2], [12]). …”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Incentives and algorithms for broadband access sharing

Mamatas

Psaras

Pavlou

2010

Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Home Networks

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The unprecedented growth of the mobile (Smart)phone industry that comes together with the corresponding application development market has made apparent that mobile networking through 3G links is just about to reach an unbreakable limit, in terms of network capacity. The networking research community has recently started considering alternative connectivity approaches to support and boost the performance of mobile networking. In particular, researchers have identified a big amount of "power", hidden at the edges of the network, which remains there unexploited and is no other than the WiFi technology deployed in home-networks. We explore incentives and algorithms for Broadband Access Sharing to support nomadic users and show that ubiquitous connectivity in densely populated areas is already possible, since the infrastructure is already there, waiting to be used.

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An Experimental Evaluation of Urban Networking using IEEE 802.11 Technology

Cited by 19 publications

References 3 publications

Cellular Traffic Offloading through WiFi Networks

Cellular Traffic Offloading through WiFi Networks

Survey of Experimental Evaluation Studies for Wireless Mesh Network Deployments in Urban Areas Towards Ubiquitous Internet

Incentives and algorithms for broadband access sharing

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