Outsourcing coordination and management of home wireless access points through an open API

摘要: In dense wireless deployments at homes, such as apartment buildings, neighboring home WLANs share the same unlicensed spectrum by deploying consumer-grade access points in their individual homes. environments, WiFi networks can suffer from intermittent performance issues packet losses, interference and non-WiFi sources due to rapid growth increasing diversity of devices that spectrum. this paper, we propose a vendor-neutral cloud-based centralized framework called COAP configure, coordinate manage APs using an open API implemented these commodity APs. The framework, OpenFlow extensions, allows various types information with controller — traffic phenomenon flow contexts, turn receive instructions configuration parameters (e.g., channel) transmission (through coarse-grained schedules throttling parameters). This paper describes associated techniques, applications motivate its potential benefits, as, upto 47% reduction channel congestion our experiences having deployed it actual environments.