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Carrier-Grade Internet Access Sharing in Wireless Mesh Networks: the Vision of the CARMNET Project

Authors:
Mariusz Glabowski
Andrzej Szwabe

Keywords: wireless mesh networks, user-operated Internet access sharing, IMS, AAA, NUM

Abstract:
The paper presents the vision of CARMNET – a Swiss-Polish project aimed at investigating “CARrier-grade delay-aware resource management for wireless multi-hop/Mesh NETworks”. The project focuses on developing solutions that will motivate telecom operators to reconsider their view on user-operated IEEE 802.11-compliant wireless mesh networks. The project is driven by the vision of networks operated jointly by telecom operators – likely appreciating the CARMNET compliance with their IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure – and a community of users contributing to and enjoying the pervasiveness of the CARMNET-based Internet access. The project aims at providing, both telecom operators and potential end users, with solutions that will create appropriately strong incentives – technological, functional and economical – for a widespread adoption of CARMNET-like networks within a steadily expanding group of users. Initial results indicate, that despite the originality of the project vision, the preliminary CARMNET system architecture complies with key relevant standards.

Pages: 113 to 116

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: June 23, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4030

ISBN: 978-1-61208-279-0

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from June 23, 2013 to June 28, 2013