Towards WiFi mobility without fast handover

摘要: WiFi is emerging as the preferred connectivity solution for mobile clients because of its low power consumption and high capacity. Dense urban deployments cover entire central areas, but one thing missing a seamless experience. Mobility in has traditionally pursued fast handover, we argue that this wrong goal to begin with. Instead, propose should connect all access points they see, split traffic over them with newly deployed MPTCP protocol. We let multiple APs on same channel, or different channels, show via detailed experiments simulation greatly enhances capacity reliability TCP connections straight away certain flavors a/b/g. also find there are situations where connecting severely decreases throughput, series client-side changes make robust across wide range scenarios.