PPMN: A Resilient Public Peer-to-Peer Mesh Network of IEEE802.16 Users

摘要

In these days, IEEE802.16 protocol is being developed and in the next years, 802.16 modems will be used in every house to connect to the Internet through base-stations in both urban and rural areas. Since user bandwidth for connection to the Internet is limited, a large fraction of each modem's bandwidth is not used. In this paper, we propose an architecture to construct a public peer-to-peer mesh network using the non-utilized bandwidth of independent 802.16 users. The architecture is composed of a routing algorithm, a forwarding incentive mechanism, and a security-resiliency scheme. Design challenges are discussed in each case.