Wireless Communications
DIMSUMNet: New Directions in Wireless Networking Using Coordinated Dynamic Spectrum Access
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Enhancing the security of corporate Wi-Fi networks using DAIR
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
MOJO: a distributed physical layer anomaly detection system for 802.11 WLANs
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
PPR: partial packet recovery for wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Connectivity brokerage: from coexistence to collaboration
RWS'10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE conference on Radio and wireless symposium
A case for the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks
S3 '11 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students
Enabling coexistence of heterogeneous wireless systems: case for ZigBee and WiFi
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
Cooperative carrier signaling: harmonizing coexisting WPAN and WLAN devices
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Many licensed and unlicensed frequency bands support heterogeneous wireless networks running different physical and link layer protocols. These networks "share" spectrum, but in an anarchic and arbitrary manner, resulting in poor performance for some networks and sub-optimal performance in aggregate. This problem is likely to be of importance in the US 700 MHz TV band, which is being explored for secondary use. This paper describes Metronome, a system that allows heterogeneous networks to coexist well. Metronome provides a flexible and expressive policy language that allows a network operator to specify constraints on receiver performance metrics such as throughput or loss rates. Metronome then configures each participating transmitter with appropriate channel, bandwidth, and transmission power settings automatically. Experiments from an outdoor vehicular platform for monitoring the TV band, and from an indoor heterogeneous network of 802.11, ZigBee and Bluetooth devices demonstrate the utility of Metronome's policy language. In a network of coexisting devices, we find that Metronome improves the throughputs of ZigBee and Bluetooth by more than 6× and that of 802.11 by more than 15%.