LANMAR: landmark routing for large scale wireless ad hoc networks with group mobility
MobiHoc '00 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
FatVAP: aggregating AP backhaul capacity to maximize throughput
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Opportunistic use of client repeaters to improve performance of WLANs
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
The capacity of wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
The IEEE 802.11s Extended Service Set Mesh Networking Standard
IEEE Communications Magazine
Enabling ad-hoc-style communication in public WLAN hot-spots
Proceedings of the seventh ACM international workshop on Challenged networks
Enabling ad-hoc-style communication in public WLAN hot-spots
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
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Due to the widespread availability of 802.11-compliant devices, the 802.11 ad-hoc mode appears especially suited to set up mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). In practice, creating a MANET is challenging because typical mobile devices do not implement the configuration, routing, and name resolution functions required to operate in an ad-hoc scenario. Software restrictions on modern mobile operating systems, such as Android and iOS, even prevent mobile devices from actively participating in ad-hoc networks without circumventing vendor barriers (e.g., acquiring root access). While 802.11 infrastructure mode is not originally meant for ad-hoc establishment of multi-hop networks, it is a commodity in all 802.11-compliant devices. This availability prompts the question whether efficient ad-hoc networks can be formed by solely using 802.11 infrastructure mode. In this paper, we present an approach for 802.11 infrastructure mode ad-hoc networks in which mobile devices simultaneously function as an access point and as a station. To establish multi-hop communication across multiple infrastructure mode networks, they mesh with other access point devices. Our evaluation shows that 802.11 infrastructure ad- hoc networks even outperform 802.11 ad-hoc mode networks in terms of multi-hop throughput.