The case for intentional networking

  • Authors:
  • Jason Flinn;T. J. Giuli;Brett Higgins;Brian Noble;Azarias Reda;David Watson

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Michigan;Ford Motor Company;University of Michigan;University of Michigan;University of Michigan;Ford Motor Company

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Wireless infrastructures are increasingly diverse, complex, and difficult to manage. Those who restrict themselves to homogeneous, managed campus or corporate networks are a vanishing breed. In the wild, users are confronted with many overlapping infrastructures with a broad variety of strengths and weaknesses. Such diversity of infrastructure is both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge lies in presenting the alternatives to applications and users in a way that provides the best possible utility to both. However, by managing these many alternatives, we can provide significant benefits, exploiting multiple networks concurrently and planning future transmissions intelligently.