From 3df804eb67a01f9813e6063587ddc0485b30195b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jinghao Shi Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:41:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] abstractg --- abstract.tex | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- figures/DominantNeighborAPFigure.pdf | Bin 136239 -> 0 bytes figures/HomeAPSessionRSSI.pdf | Bin 133855 -> 0 bytes figures/ReciprocalSharingFigure.pdf | Bin 14790 -> 0 bytes figures/SpatialSparseFigure.pdf | Bin 211618 -> 0 bytes figures/design.pdf | Bin 296996 -> 0 bytes figures/motivation.pdf | Bin 369899 -> 0 bytes 7 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/abstract.tex b/abstract.tex index 7092cec..e2fd727 100644 --- a/abstract.tex +++ b/abstract.tex @@ -1,31 +1,31 @@ \begin{abstract} - Widespread deployment of private home \wifi{} access points (APs) can - result in uncoordinated and overlapping wireless networks that compete with - each other for limited bandwidth. We expect this suboptimal arrangement to - only get worse, particularly in the dense urban environments that house - an increasing fraction of the world's population. Broadband penetration and - the demand for high-speed \wifi{} throughout the home will lead to more - private APs, which will generate more interference for neighboring - networks, resulting in even more private APs and additional interference, - and so on. +Widespread deployment of private home \wifi{} access points (APs) can +result in uncoordinated and overlapping wireless networks that compete with +each other for limited bandwidth. We expect this suboptimal arrangement to +only get worse, particularly in the dense urban environments that house +an increasing fraction of the world's population. Broadband penetration and +the demand for high-speed \wifi{} throughout the home will lead to more +private APs, which will generate more interference for neighboring +networks, resulting in even more private APs and additional interference, +and so on. - In this paper we investigate whether we can prevent this vicious cycle by - using \textit{reciprocal \wifi{} sharing} to make better use of existing - private home APs. We define reciprocal \wifi{} sharing as cases where two - users both improve their network performance by connecting to each other's - overlapping private \wifi{} networks. Compared to previous approaches that - attempted to use private APs to create large-scale open-access \wifi{} - networks, reciprocal \wifi{} sharing relationships more closely mirror - existing human relationships and can be maintained without elaborate - reputation mechanisms. - - To evaluate the potential for reciprocal \wifi{} sharing, we analyze 21~M - \wifi{} scans collected from 254~smartphones over 5~months. Our results - show that even in a sparsely-populated suburban area, reciprocal \wifi{} - sharing can be beneficial. And surprisingly, we detected several reciprocal - \wifi{} sharing opportunities even within our tiny user sample. Motivated - by these results, we present the design of \wisefi{}, a system enabling - reciprocal \wifi{} sharing. +In this paper we investigate whether we can prevent this vicious cycle by +using \textit{reciprocal \wifi{} sharing} to make better use of existing +private home APs. We define reciprocal \wifi{} sharing as cases where two +users both improve their network performance by connecting to each other's +overlapping private \wifi{} networks. Compared to previous approaches that +attempted to use private APs to create large-scale open-access \wifi{} +networks, reciprocal \wifi{} sharing relationships more closely mirror +existing human relationships and can be maintained without elaborate +reputation mechanisms. + +To evaluate the potential for reciprocal \wifi{} sharing, we analyze 21~M +\wifi{} scans collected from 254~smartphones over 5~months. Our results +show that even in a sparsely-populated suburban area, reciprocal \wifi{} +sharing can be beneficial. And surprisingly, we detected several reciprocal +\wifi{} sharing opportunities even within our tiny user sample. Motivated +by these results, we present the design of \wisefi{}, a system enabling +reciprocal \wifi{} sharing. \end{abstract} diff --git a/figures/DominantNeighborAPFigure.pdf b/figures/DominantNeighborAPFigure.pdf index 2ac88f0..3beba91 100644 Binary files a/figures/DominantNeighborAPFigure.pdf and b/figures/DominantNeighborAPFigure.pdf differ diff --git a/figures/HomeAPSessionRSSI.pdf b/figures/HomeAPSessionRSSI.pdf index a6a207f..c44a183 100644 Binary files a/figures/HomeAPSessionRSSI.pdf and b/figures/HomeAPSessionRSSI.pdf differ diff --git a/figures/ReciprocalSharingFigure.pdf b/figures/ReciprocalSharingFigure.pdf index 3ddf59d..8b9e673 100644 Binary files a/figures/ReciprocalSharingFigure.pdf and b/figures/ReciprocalSharingFigure.pdf differ diff --git a/figures/SpatialSparseFigure.pdf b/figures/SpatialSparseFigure.pdf index cadba28..0243cdd 100644 Binary files a/figures/SpatialSparseFigure.pdf and b/figures/SpatialSparseFigure.pdf differ diff --git a/figures/design.pdf b/figures/design.pdf index fe810c4..0eabeff 100644 Binary files a/figures/design.pdf and b/figures/design.pdf differ diff --git a/figures/motivation.pdf b/figures/motivation.pdf index a03a3ce..8513b22 100644 Binary files a/figures/motivation.pdf and b/figures/motivation.pdf differ -- libgit2 0.22.2