VirtualWiFi
VirtualWiFi helps a user connect to multiple IEEE 802.11 networks with one WiFi card. It works by exposing multiple virtual adapters, one for each wireless network to which connectivity is desired. Virtual WiFi uses a network hopping scheme to switch the wireless card across the desired wireless networks. Switching between networks is transparent to the applications, such that the user feels she is connected to multiple wireless networks simultaneously.
Publications
- Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Patrick Lee, Vishal Mishra, Jitu Padhye, Dan Rubenstein, and Yan Yu, Opportunistic Use of Client Repeaters to Improve Performance of WLANs , in Volume 17, Number 4, pp. 1160-1171, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, August 2009
- Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Patrick P. C. Lee, Vishal Misra, Jitendra Padhye, Dan Rubenstein, and Yan Yu, Opportunistic Use of Client Repeaters to Improve Performance of WLANs, in ACM CoNEXT 2008 (Best Paper Award), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., December 2008
- Ranveer Chandra, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Ming Zhang, WiFiProfiler: Cooperative Diagnosis in Wireless LANs, in Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., June 2006
- Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, and John Dunagan, SSCH: Slotted Seeded Channel Hopping for Capacity Improvement in IEEE 802.11 Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks, in ACM MobiCom, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2004
- Atul Adya, Paramvir Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, and Lili Qiu, Architecture and Techniques for Diagnosing Faults in IEEE 802.11 Infrastructure Networks, in ACM MobiCom, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2004
- Ranveer Chandra, Paramvir Bahl, and Pradeep Bahl, MultiNet: Connecting to Multiple IEEE 802.11 Networks Using a Single Wireless Card, in IEEE Infocom, IEEE Communications Society, March 2004
- Paramvir Bahl, Pradeep Bahl, and Ranveer Chandra, MultiNet: Connecting to Multiple IEEE 802.11 Networks Using a Single Wireless Card, no. MSR-TR-2003-46, August 2003
VirtualWiFi web site (with link to download the software)
