Wifi-Reports: Improving Wireless Network Selection with Collaboration

doi:10.1109/TMC.2010.151

Wifi-Reports: Improving Wireless Network Selection with Collaboration

2010-12-01

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DOI：10.1109/TMC.2010.151

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Wi-Fi clients can obtain much better performance at some commercial hot spots than others. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for users to determine which hot spot access points (APs) will be sufficient to run their applications before purchasing access. To address this problem, this paper presents Wifi-Reports, a collaborative service that provides Wi-Fi clients with historical information about AP performance and application support. The key research challenge in Wifi-Reports is to obtain accurate user-submitted reports. This is challenging because two conflicting goals must be addressed in a practical system: preserving the privacy of users' reports and limiting fraudulent reports. We introduce a practical cryptographic protocol that achieves both goals, and address the important engineering challenges in building Wifi-Reports. Using a measurement study of APs in a busy commercial district, we show that Wifi-Reports would improve the performance over previous AP selection approaches in 30-60 percent of locations.

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