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A case for enhancing dual radio repeater performance through striping, aggregation, and channel sharing

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Michael Griepentrog,

Jongwon Yoon, and

Suman BanerjeeAuthors Info & Claims

MobiCom '14: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking

September 2014

Pages 569 - 580

https://doi.org/10.1145/2639108.2639133

Published: 07 September 2014 Publication History

Abstract

The work in this paper is a systematic research and engineering effort in exploring the design space of multi-interface wireless repeater systems. We present the design, implementation and evaluation of a wireless repeater system, Multifacet, which opportunistically utilizes multiple interfaces to enhance capacity. The system is designed to be transparent to application endpoints and does not need any end application modifications for adoption. Multifacet incorporates several techniques to achieve efficient bandwidth utilization across multiple interfaces -- (a) coordinated channel sharing, (b) a simplified backpressure based striping technique, (c) a single link abstraction, and (d) the ability to seamlessly migrate a client to the optimal channel. Multifacet is implemented on off-the-shelf dual band wireless repeater and demonstrates high speeds (337 Mbps) operation. On average, Multifacet performs 50% better than traditional AP/repeater setups, and in the best case, more than 2x better.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/DySPAN.2015.7343852

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A case for enhancing dual radio repeater performance through striping, aggregation, and channel sharing
1. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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MobiCom '14: Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking

September 2014

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DOI:10.1145/2639108

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Hartung LMilind M(2015)Policy driven multi-band spectrum aggregation for ultra-broadband wireless networks2015 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN)10.1109/DySPAN.2015.7343852(82-93)Online publication date: Sep-2015
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