Achieving Reliability via Multi-Homing and Path Redundancy in Multi-hop Wireless Networks for Internet Access in Rural Areas

Author

Leschiutta, Luca ; Zicca, Giampietro ; Li, Frank Y. ; Vandoni, Lorenzo ; Fragoulis, Nikos

Author_Institution

Politecnico di Torino, Turin

fYear

2007

fDate

1-5 July 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

ADHOCSYS is an IST FP6 STREP project, supported by the European Commission, under the IST strategic objective "broadband for all". The project aims at providing reliable Internet broadband access in rural and mountain regions. This paper, starting from a general description of ADHOCSYS networks, introduces a methodology for multi-hop wireless network reliability assessment. The methodology is then applied to several envisaged ADHOCSYS scenarios. Furthermore, numerical results on network availability prediction are presented and the tradeoffs on achievable availability and redundancy/costs are discussed.

Keywords

Internet; ad hoc networks; broadband networks; computer network reliability; ADHOCSYS networks; European Commission; Internet access; Internet broadband access; multihoming; multihop wireless network reliability assessment; path redundancy; rural areas; Availability; Cities and towns; DSL; Electronic mail; IP networks; Quality of service; Redundancy; Spread spectrum communication; Web and internet services; Wireless networks; Internet access; Wireless networks; multi-homing; network redundancy; network reliability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2007. 16th IST

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1662-0

Electronic_ISBN

963-8111-66-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299116

Filename

4299116