Berkeley Multimedia and Graphics Seminar
(Wednesday September 4, 1996 12:30-2:00 PDT 405 Soda Hall)

"The Case for Wireless Overlay Networks"

Randy H. Katz
University of California at Berkeley

With the rapid growth in cellular telephony, it seems natural to expect a comparable growth in wireless data services. Unfortunately, there exists no integrated architecture that seamlessly integrates wireless services spanning satellites, wireless cable modems, cellular data overlays, packet radio networks, and wireless local area networks. Each is its own independent island of network connectivity.

In this talk, we will provide an overview of the Daedalus Project, which is developing technology for the seamless integration of heterogeneous wireless subnetworks, in particular, mobile routing, transport, and application adaptation of multimedia data types across wide ranges in bandwidth and latency. This technology is being deployed in the Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN), being constructed with technology from IBM, AT&T/NCR, Metricom, Hybrid, and Hughes. The testbed includes in-building and wide-area wireless technologies, including satellite direct broadcast and wireless cable modems. The work is joint with Professor Eric Brewer.

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