Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rapid picocell switching for wireless transit networks
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Application No.: US16488693Application Date: 2018-03-02
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Publication No.: US11140595B2Publication Date: 2021-10-05
- Inventor: Kyle Jamieson
- Applicant: The Trustees of Princeton University
- Applicant Address: US NJ Princeton
- Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
- Current Assignee: The Trustees of Princeton University
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Princeton
- Agency: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
- International Application: PCT/US2018/020610 WO 20180302
- International Announcement: WO2018/160937 WO 20180907
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00 ; H04W36/08 ; H04W36/04 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
Disclosed is a design and implementation of a Wi-Fi based network (e.g., roadside hotspot network designed to operate at vehicular speeds and picocell, meter-sized, cells). The disclosed access points (APs) make delivery decisions to the vehicular clients they serve at millisecond-level granularities, exploiting path diversity in roadside networks. In order to accomplish this, buffer management algorithms are employed that allow participating APs to manage each other's queues, rapidly quenching each other's transmissions and flushing each other's queues. An example embodiment of the disclosed approach employs an eight-AP network alongside a nearby road, and was evaluated with mobile clients moving at up to 25 mph. Depending on mobility speed, the disclosed approach achieves a 2.4-4.7 times TCP throughput improvement over a baseline fast handover protocol that captures the state of the art in Wi-Fi roaming, the IEEE 802.11k and 802.11r standards.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210112470A1 Rapid Picocell Switching For Wireless Transit Networks Public/Granted day:2021-04-15
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