A proposal for elastic spectrum management in wireless local area networks

Abstract

The last hop of the Internet towards the end-user is mostly supported by wireless technologies and thus interconnects multiple users, that should, ideally, be served simultaneously. The shared media capability of such last hop is, however, underused, asthe principle behind wireless technologies implies that only one user can be served at an instant in time. Aiming at allowing multiuser transmission within a specific time-frame, this technological demonstration goes over a novel wireless extension mechanism explaining how it can be applied to current wireless networks while keeping backward compatibility.