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Mobile Access Router
Exploiting Wide-area
Wireless Diversity |
Mobile Access Router (MAR),
is a multi-homed wireless router device
that can be placed in vehicles, e.g., cars, buses, and trains, etc. to
enable high-speed data access for their occupants. The MAR system
design stems from the observation that rather than choosing a single
wireless service provider (e.g., Sprint, AT&T, etc.), a single
technology (e.g., CDMA, UMTS, GSM), or a single wireless channel, users
can reap significant benefits by using all of these choices
simultaneously, as it is typically available.
While the notion of wireless
diversity is gaining great popularity in many wireless scenarios
(wireless meshes, WLANs, etc.) today, our MAR
system was one of the first
to propose this notion and demonstrate its benefit through
implementation and deployment. Our experimentation also demonstrated
and
quantified benefits for both web browsing and media streaming
applications. Joint collaboration with Microsoft Research Cambridge.
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