Teco Boot wrote:
Op 12 aug. 2015, om 12:27 heeft Juliusz
Chroboczek<[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
I still think the Homenet WG should pay far more attention to seamless
WiFi handover,
We're currently working on that with the WLAN-SI guys. They've got
a nationwide mesh network (it's a small country, granted, and they use the
public Internet infrastructure whenever possible), and while they're not
interested in roaming at a global scale, they insist on seamless roaming
within a small cluster of routers (home or village sized), and they insist
on no host changes and good support for Android hosts.
Great!
+1
We'll write to this list when we know what works.
Boring. I'm interested in what doesn't work :-)
While I pay for it, I never use the millions of WiFi access points I can use
here in the Netherlands. I tried it once, walking in a small city. At the time
the handover was completed, the connectivity was gone. It might have to do with
IEEE and IETF mismatch. Same SSID shall have same IP subnet (IEEE) versus each
link has its own subnet (some of IETF, no formal statement...).
Teco
I second this end-user experience: 2 million access points in one of the
most densely populated areas on Earth, very strong signal coverage, but
a pretty useless experience because handoff is so poor.
End host modifications aren't in Homenet scope, but wifi roaming is
something we really need to address (to at least clarify what Homenet
will/ will not support in terms of SSID etc. )
In case it doesn't show, I'm enthusiastic about the energy and competence
of the WLAN-SI core team. They make a serious effort in translating
everything they do into English, and they've got a nice node database
online (even nicer one ready, but not deployed yet):
https://wlan-si.net/
https://nodes.wlan-si.net/
-- Juliusz
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