Delivering capacity for the mobile internet by stitching together networks

Authors:
Kok-Kiong Yap;Sachin Katti;Guru Parulkar;Nick McKeown
Affiliations:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM workshop on Wireless of the students, by the students, for the students
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Despite of findings that only 5.2% of the spectrum from 30 MHz to 3 GHz is utilized, there is much talk of an impending spectrum crisis. This is no contradiction - spectrum is inefficiently utilized, with some part of the spectrum being heavily used while others barely used. In this paper, we explore a simple high-level approach to the problem: to enable user mobility across networks and exploit all the capacity available. By doing so, we can create a better mobile network by stitching together existing ones spanning multiple wireless technologies. We briefly outline our exploratory foray into radio agnostic handover and discuss the various challenges ahead.