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Authors:
Mariusz Glabowski
Andrzej Szwabe
Dario Gallucci
Salvatore Vanini
Silvia Giordano
Keywords: wireless mesh networks; wireless mesh testbeds; user-operated Internet access sharing; IMS; mobility
Abstract:
The paper presents the vision, as well as the main results of the implementation and the experimentation performed within CARMNET – a Swiss-Polish project aimed at investigating “CARrier-grade delay-aware resource management for wireless multi-hop/Mesh NETworks”. The project focuses on solutions that motivate telecom operators to reconsider their view on user-operated IEEE 802.11-compliant wireless mesh networks. It is driven by the vision of networks operated cooperatively by telecom operators and a community of users. While the former may appreciate the CARMNET’s compliance with IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) infrastructure, the latter likely enjoy the pervasiveness of the CARMNET-based Internet access. The project aims at providing, both telecom operators and end users, with solutions that will create appropriately strong incentives – technological, functional and economical – for a widespread adoption of CARMNET-like networks within an expanding group of users. Project results obtained so far indicate, that despite the originality of the project vision, its solutions are applicable to the telecom operator’s infrastructure, in particular in Internet access sharing scenarios that become widespread in the recent years.
Pages: 25 to 36
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2014. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 30, 2014
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2644