An architecture for a campus-sized wireless mobile network
Chueng-Hsien Lin, Douglas E. Comer · 1996
This dissertation proposes a new approach to support wireless mobile internet-working on a large university campus or similar environment. Called Crosspoint, the approach combines wireless local-area network technology with high-speed switching technology. The combination provides a wireless communication system with sufficient aggregate bandwidth to handle massive, synchronized movements of mobile computers. Furthermore, the approach supports optimal routing to each mobile computer without requiring modification of the networking software on mobile computers, nonmobile computers, or routers in the existing Internet. This dissertation describes the design and implementation of Crosspoint. Through a prototype implementation, we have shown that the approach is feasible.