Neighborhood-Aware Networking


The volume of data generated and consumed in the home is increasing rapidly. This wealth of data introduces the opportunity for new applications and services, but these potential innovations depend on fast and efficient mechanisms for transfering data to, from, and within the home. Although residential network connectivity to the Internet is relatively constrained, homes have one significantly untapped resource-- wireless connectivity. Residential 802.11 networks have much higher capacity than broadband connections, providing an alternative, fast distribution medium between homes in a neighborhood. This project seeks to harness the existing (and growing) wireless connectivity in the neighborhood to design and implement new network and application-level protocols and services that are "neighborhood-aware."

Publications


Researchers


Michael Kaminsky (co-PI)
Dina Papagiannaki (co-PI)
Anmol Sheth

Collaborators


David Andersen (Carnegie Mellon CS)
Srini Seshan (Carnegie Mellon CS)
Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon CS)

Students


Szymon Chachulski (MIT)
Bin Fan (Carnegie Mellon)
Dongsu Han (Carnegie Mellon)
Xi Liu (Carnegie Mellon)