Seamless Redundancy for High Reliability Wi-Fi
- Gianluca Cena ,
- Stefano Scanzio ,
- Dave Cavalcanti ,
- Valerio Frascolla
Abstract
By removing wire harness, Wi-Fi is becoming increasingly pervasive in
every aspect of our lives, in both the consumer and industrial worlds.
Besides flexibility, the recent high efficiency and extremely high
throughput versions managed to close the performance gap with Ethernet.
However, it still lags behind Ethernet for what concerns dependability.
To this aim, the ultra high reliability study group has been recently
formed.
This paper reports on some preliminary ideas and proposals about the
ways seamless redundancy can be exploited to make Wi-Fi more reliable,
yet retaining a good degree of backward compatibility with existing
network infrastructures.