LegoFi the wifi building blocks!
Julius Schulz-Zander, Stefan Schmid, James Kempf, Roberto Riggio, Anja Feldmann · 2016
The increasing demand for flexibility in WiFi network deployments along with more stringent requirements on performance and security stand in stark contrast to today's ossified and expensive WiFi architecture. In particular, today's WiFi networks consists of a large number of control and data plane network functions that are either bundled into a single access controller running on proprietary hardware or are distributed across the network to run on WiFi access points. This approach does not properly reflect the broad and evolving diversity of scenarios in which WiFi is deployed.