Analysis of a local-area wireless network
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Analysis of a metropolitan-area wireless network
Wireless Networks - Selected Papers from Mobicom'99
Characterizing user behavior and network performance in a public wireless LAN
SIGMETRICS '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Analysis of a campus-wide wireless network
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
The changing usage of a mature campus-wide wireless network
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Characterizing mobility and network usage in a corporate wireless local-area network
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Analysis of a Wi-Fi hotspot network
WiTMeMo '05 Papers presented at the 2005 workshop on Wireless traffic measurements and modeling
Access and mobility of wireless PDA users
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
ExOR: opportunistic multi-hop routing for wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Measurement-based characterization of 802.11 in a hotspot setting
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Understanding link-layer behavior in highly congested IEEE 802.11b wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Architecture and evaluation of an unplanned 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Design and evaluation of a new MAC protocol for long-distance 802.11 mesh networks
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Measurement driven deployment of a two-tier urban mesh access network
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Jigsaw: solving the puzzle of enterprise 802.11 analysis
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Analyzing the MAC-level behavior of wireless networks in the wild
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Long-distance 802.11b links: performance measurements and experience
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Long distance wireless mesh network planning: problem formulation and solution
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Understanding congestion in IEEE 802.11b wireless networks
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
Automating cross-layer diagnosis of enterprise wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Efficiency through eavesdropping: link-layer packet caching
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Assessment of urban-scale wireless networks with a small number of measurements
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Analysis of a mixed-use urban wifi network: when metropolitan becomes neapolitan
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A measurement study of a commercial-grade urban wifi mesh
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Experiences in using WiFi for rural internet in India
IEEE Communications Magazine
Experimental evaluation of a wireless community mesh network
Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Dynamic multiagent load balancing using distributed constraint optimization techniques
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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While WiFi was initially designed as a local-area access network, mesh networking technologies have led to increasingly expansive deployments of WiFi networks. In urban environments, theWiFi mesh frequently supplements a number of existing access technologies, including wired broadband networks, 3G cellular, and commercial WiFi hotspots. It is an open question what role citywideWiFi deployments play in the increasingly diverse access network spectrum. We study the usage of the Google WiFi network deployed in Mountain View, CA, and find that usage naturally falls into three classes based almost entirely on client device type, which we divide into traditional laptop users, fixed-location access devices, and PDA-like smartphone devices. Moreover, each of these classes of use has significant geographic locality, following the distribution of residential, commercial, and transportation areas of the city. When comparing the network usage of each device class, we find a diverse set of mobility patterns that map well to the archetypal use cases for traditional access technologies. To help place our results in context, we also provide key performance measurements of the mesh backbone and, where possible, compare them to those of previously studied urban mesh networks.