Imagine a world in which every desktop computer comes equipped with a WiFi network interface. This is not a far-fetched idea: we can come close to this vision today by plugging inexpensive USB-equipped WiFi cards into existing desktops, and desktop motherboards are starting to come with WiFi chipsets built-in. In the DAIR project, we explore what one can do with such a dense array of radios. Currently, the DAIR project is simultaneously progressing along three directions. First, we have built a platform that uses the WiFi interfaces on the desktop machines to better manage and monitor enterprise WiFi networks. We currently use it to monitor the corporate WiFi network in our building, and we are in discussions with MSIT to deploy it in other buildings. Second, we have started working on a system which uses the WiFi interfaces on the desktop to provide wireless connectivity to mobile clients. In short, we would like to get rid of the access points! Third, we are thinking about several novel applications and architectures that require a dense array of radios.

• A Location-based Management System for Enterprise Wireless LANs
  Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Alec Wolman and Brian Zill
  NSDI 2007,
  PowerPoint Presentation



• Enhancing the Security of Corporate WiFi Networks Using DAIR
  Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman and Brian Zill
  MobiSys 2007,
  PowerPoint Presentation



• DAIR: A Framework for Managing Enterprise Wireless Networks Using Desktop Infrastructure
  Victor Bahl, Ranveer Chandra, Jitendra Padhye, Lenin Ravindranath, Manpreet Singh, Alec Wolman and Brian Zill
  HotNets2005,
  PowerPoint Presentation

• The minds behind Microsoft Research
  Projects in the Microsoft Research labs
  Gary Anthes.
  Computerworld, 05 June 2006

• Victor Bahl
• Ranveer Chandra
• Jitendra Padhye
• Lenin Ravindranath
• Manpreet Singh
• Alec Wolman
• Brian Zill