[Cerowrt-devel] dlte

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> writes:

> 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,

Totally agree. I'll add that even persistent "connections" can do
end-to-end mobility with changing addresses. Mosh is an example of an
application that does this right. I believe Apple uses MPTCP to achieve
the same thing with TCP...

-Toke