Systems Seminar: Prof. Randy Katz, University of California, Berkeley

The Case for Wireless Overlay Networks

Abstract

Wireless technologies are proliferating, yet no single access technology will simultaneously achieve ubiquitious coverage and high performance. This talk will describe the Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network we have constructed at UC Berkeley and the underlying network technology we have developed to insure seamless handoff and good transport level performance across diverse wireless (and hybrid wireless/wireline) access technologies spanning room-sized IR nets to metropolitan-area packet radio nets.

This is joint work with Eric Brewer and a terrific team of graduate students.