[Cerowrt-devel] dlte

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Dave Taht <dave at taht.net> writes:

> Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> OK, now I read the paper, and I think you may have missed the part where
>> they say that they terminate the tunnelling at the AP and assign new IPs
>> whenever a client roams. So it's basically WiFi APs over the LTE
>> layer-2... Which is pretty cool, I think :)
>
> It's still based on the false optimism that users will ever get to own
> and control their own LTE AP.

Well, they did say they had done proof of concept tests; and that they
could build a base station for $8000... So might not be completely
impossible...

-Toke