TON
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
While WiFi was initially designed as a local-area access network, mesh networking technologies have led to increasingly expansive deployments of WiFi networks. In urban environment...
WINET
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We consider a scenario where devices with multiple networking capabilities access networks with heterogeneous characteristics. In such a setting, we address the problem of effici...
COMCOM
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
Using cable modems that operate at several hundred times the speed of conventional telephone modems, many cable operators are beginning to offer World Wide Web access and other da...
CN
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
We analyze the capacity of ultra-wide band (UWB) wireless access networks supporting multimedia services by calculating the number of multimedia connections that can be supported ...
INFOCOM
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
While the backbone networks have experienced substantial changes in the last decade; the access networks have not changed much. Recently, passive optical networks (PONs) seem to be...
IWCMC
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
This paper introduces project TITAN, which investigates an alternative construct of residential broadband access. The aim of the project is to increase the utilisation of deployed...
COMSWARE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— The telecom and the internet world is converging towards all-IP network architecture and the operators are keen to provide innovative multimedia services coupled with advanced ...
INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—With the explosive deployment of “triple play” (voice, video and data services) over the same access network, guaranteeing a certain-level of survivability for the access ne...
ICC
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
—We have currently reached a phase where big shifts in the network traffic might impose to rethink the design of current architectures, and where new technologies, being pushed ...