Wide Area Networks (WAN) White Papers
Collaborative Downloading for Multi-Homed Wireless Devices
Overview Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces: Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) interfaces for local connectivity and Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) interfaces for wide-area connectivity. The WWAN typically provides much wider coverage but much lower speeds than the WLAN. To address this dichotomy, it considers collaborative downloading among mobile devices in close proximity. This paper demonstrates the potential benefits of such an approach and discusses the many challenges to realizing it in practice: incentivizing cooperation by adequately compensating nodes, effecting such cooperation via an efficient protocol, and facilitating it with a suitable user interface. This paper presents the current thinking on these as it design a collaborative downloading system called COMBINE.
| Publisher | Microsoft | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2007 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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