Abstract
AbstractThis paper presents a design and implementation of a novel ad hoc wireless inter‐network gateway and research platform (A‐WING) which supports heterogeneous wireless and wired networking infrastructures and ad hoc wireless protocols. The driving goal is to explore and realize ways of increasing the ‘always best connected’ options for mobile wireless devices. The platform currently supports IEEE 802.11 (Wi‐Fi), IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet), Bluetooth, IPv4, IPv6, broadcasting and multicasting, stream and datagram transport protocols. The gateway can be readily expanded by the addition of new functionality or support for other networking hardware. This functional variety and inbuilt extensibility ensures that A‐WING can facilitate research into multi‐mode multi‐protocol wireless networking. The A‐WING design is based on a new generic description of link layer services called the ‘9Cs’ and includes a new method for the hierarchical description of networks incorporating nodes with multiple interfaces together with the development of a new XML schema for network, node and interface descriptive inter‐nodal messaging. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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