[Cerowrt-devel] dlte

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018, Dave Taht wrote:

> I expect dave reed to comment, so I'll withhold mine for now
>
> https://kurti.sh/pubs/dLTE-Johnson-HotNets-2018.pdf

When I read the first page I was hopeful, then unfortunately I got 
disappointed and just quickly scanned the rest. It's still tunneled and 
the same architecture, just more distributed.

I'd prefer if the device had two radios and could handle its own handover 
for most traffic. Most traffic today is streaming video so when you want 
to do handover just attach to the new radio, get new address, deprecate 
the old address, open new connections using the new address/radio close 
connections based on the old address, and move on.

Traffic that needs to be always the same can be tunneled, but most traffic 
has no need for this. My guesstimate is that 90-95% of traffic doesn't 
need mobility and doesn't need to go via some tunnel to some core-node.

It's also frustrating to talk "wifi" with mobile people, because they 
conflate "wifi" into multiple things at once. For me it's just that people 
want well working wireless access, and they couldn't care less how they 
get it. The more seamless the better. In that aspect this proposal is kind 
of neat in that I could make my residential radios join a larger network 
(similar to eduroam).

So yes, I think this proposal has some merit.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se