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The Case for Decentralized Fallback Networks

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper argues that network and application delivery infrastructures have become highly centralized and are more vulnerable to attacks and disasters than is desirable. It proposes a research agenda for decentralized fallback networks and focuses on a key component---a city-scale decentralized network using existing Wi-Fi access points, which are deployed across almost all buildings in cities. It proposes a routing system that uses information about buildings from geospatial maps instead of traditional routing mechanisms to scale well to millions of Wi-Fi nodes.

Source: ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)

DOI: 10.1145/3696348.3696883

Authors: James Lynch, Ziqian Liu, Chenning Li, Manya Ghobadi, Hari Balakrishnan

Institutions: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency