Wi-Fi Assist: Enhancing Vehicular Wi-Fi Connectivity with an Infrastructure-driven Approach
Abstract
Vehicles access the Internet via cellular networks, instead of Wi-Fi networks. This choice has been mostly justified by the ubiquitous coverage of cellular networks: Wi-Fi coverage has been shown to be inadequate in the past, even in urban areas. We argue that providing Internet connectivity to vehicles via Wi-Fi is worth a revisit. Motivated by improvements in Wi-Fi network coverage in recent years, we propose Wi-Fi Assist, an add-on to current Wi-Fi infrastructures which differs from existing solutions in two key ways: (1) it is heavily infrastructure-driven; and (2) defines an interface for low-latency cooperation between different WLAN service sets, managed by different service providers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.04547,
title = {Wi-Fi Assist: Enhancing Vehicular Wi-Fi Connectivity with an Infrastructure-driven Approach},
author = {Antonio Rodrigues and Peter Steenkiste and Ana Aguiar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.04547},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, accompanying paper for poster presented at CoNext 2017's Student Workshop