Amorfi: amorphous wifi networks for high-density deployments

RK Sheshadri, MY Arslan, K Sundaresan… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
RK Sheshadri, MY Arslan, K Sundaresan, S Rangarajan, D Koutsonikolas
Proceedings of the 12th International on Conference on emerging Networking …, 2016dl.acm.org
The static capacity provisioning in traditional WiFi networks (WLANs) cannot cope with the
high spatiotemporal traffic variations in high-density venues such as conference centers,
stadiums etc. To guarantee reliable performance, venue owners are forced to over-provision
their WLANs based on worst-case traffic demand estimations, increasing capital and
operational expenses. We propose AmorFi, a radically new way of deploying WLANs to
handle peak traffic demands with average-case provisioning. Our key idea is to decouple …
The static capacity provisioning in traditional WiFi networks (WLANs) cannot cope with the high spatiotemporal traffic variations in high-density venues such as conference centers, stadiums etc. To guarantee reliable performance, venue owners are forced to over-provision their WLANs based on worst-case traffic demand estimations, increasing capital and operational expenses. We propose AmorFi, a radically new way of deploying WLANs to handle peak traffic demands with average-case provisioning. Our key idea is to decouple baseband processing from RF transmission (inspired by the cloud-RAN concept in cellular networks) and introduce software programmability to flexibly allocate WiFi capacity in real time based on varying traffic demands. We implement AmorFi using off-the-shelf WiFi APs over a RF-over-fiber cloud-RAN testbed. Our experiments and simulations demonstrate that the software-defined capacity allocation enabled with AmorFi delivers more than throughput than traditional WLANs.
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