Wireless virtualization on commodity 802.11 hardware

  • Authors:
  • Gregory Smith;Anmol Chaturvedi;Arunesh Mishra;Suman Banerjee

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the second ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation and characterization
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we describe specific challenges in virtualizing a wireless network and multiple strategies to address them. Among different possible wireless virtualization strategies, our current work in this domain is focussed on a Time-Division Multiplexing (TDM) approach. Hence, we we present our experiences in the design and implementation of such TDM-based wireless virtualization. Our wireless virtualization system is specifically targeted for multiplexing experiments on a large-scale 802.11 wireless testbed facility.