Autoconfiguration for faster WiFi community networks
Kelvert Ballantyne, Wahab Almuhtadi, Jordan Melzer · 2015
Commercial community wireless networks usually rely on wireless donors to give away Internet access while at home in exchange for access while they are mobile. The donors who make up the network get nothing immediate in return for providing Internet access. In this paper, we explore automatic configuration for a model of community networks in which donors mesh with each other and can aggregate Internet access from their peers with their own. To make the speed gains from access aggregation work for normal internet users, we use Multi-Path TCP (RFC 6824), proxying TCP traffic to MPTCP as needed. We examine the association, addressing, discovery, and routing challenges involved with self-configuring faster community networks, presenting IPv4 and IPv6 solutions to them.