Efficient dispersal of information for security, load balancing, and fault tolerance
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
An integrated environment for testing mobile ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Multi-path continuous media streaming: what are the benefits?
Performance Evaluation
Real-World Experiences with an Interactive Ad Hoc Sensor Network
ICPPW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
Link-level measurements from an 802.11b mesh network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Routing in multi-radio, multi-hop wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Illinois wireless wind tunnel: a testbed for experimental evaluation of wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Experimental approaches to wireless network design and analysis
Improving loss resilience with multi-radio diversity in wireless networks
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Realizing the benefits of user-level channel diversity
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Analysis of multipath Routing-Part I: the effect on the packet delivery ratio
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Exploiting multiple paths and diversity in wireless networks for high goodput and low latency
COMSNETS'09 Proceedings of the First international conference on COMmunication Systems And NETworks
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
A transport protocol to exploit multipath diversity in wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Packet-level diversity, or distributing packet transmissions over multiple, diverse channels, offers benefits in improving communication performance and robustness to channel variations. Previous works have analyzed and quantified those benefits, and developed transmission policies to realize them. However, translating those benefits into practice still faces numerous challenges from uncertainty in the adequacy of the channel models used to develop policies, to implementation dificulties in realizing the precise transmission schedules they mandate. This work is a first step in assessing what remains of those benefits once confronted with such practical challenges. Our investigation is carried out over an 802.11 testbed, where diversity is realized through the different frequency bands available for transmissions between hosts and access points. We use the testbed to evaluate the impact of transmission policies, channel characteristics, channel correlation, and various end-system constraints that affect our ability to precisely control transmissions timing. Our investigation reveals that in spite of the many gaps that exist between theory and practice, packet-level diversity still provides a simple solution to improve transmission performance and robustness across a broad range of configurations.