Paper Info
Title
EMPoWER Hybrid Networks: Exploiting Multiple Paths over Wireless and ElectRical Mediums.
Abstract
Several technologies, such as WiFi, Ethernet and power-line communications (PLC), can be used to build residential and enterprise networks. These technologies often co-exist; most networks use WiFi, and buildings are readily equipped with electrical wires that can offer a capacity up to 1 Gbps with PLC. Yet, current networks do not exploit this rich diversity and often operate far below the available capacity. We design, implement, and evaluate EMPoWER, a system that exploits simultaneously several potentially-interfering mediums. It operates at layer 2.5, between the MAC and IP layers, and combines routing (to find multiple concurrent routes) and congestion control (to efficiently balance traffic across the routes). To optimize resource utilization and robustness, both components exploit the heterogeneous nature of the network. They are fair and efficient, and they operate only within the local area network, without affecting remote Internet hosts. We demonstrate the performance gains of EMPoWER, by simulations and experiments on a 22-node testbed. We show that PLC/WiFi, benefiting from the diversity offered by wireless and electrical mediums, provides significant throughput gains (up to 10x) and improves coverage, compared to multi-channel WiFi.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2999572.2999574
ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hybrid networks, Power-line communications, Multipath routing, Multipath congestion-control, Multi-channel WiFi
Multipath routing,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Testbed,Exploit,Ethernet,Local area network,Network congestion,Throughput,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
29
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sébastien Henri131.53
Christina Vlachou2183.06
Julien Herzen3726.44
Patrick Thiran42712217.24