Wireless technology has enjoyed tremendous success in recent years. However, hotspots have largely failed as commercial endeavours. This is due to a mismatch in price (too high), coverage (too narrow) and services offered (to few). In this paper, we present a wireless city network testbed deployed in the new ICT district in Barcelona, based on 802.11 technology and the Neutral Operator model, that overcomes those shortcomings: It reduces cost and lowers barriers to entry, increases capillarity and provides city-wide implicit roaming capabilities. Most importantly, it offers a richer set of services, including location-based, eInclusion, Internet access and VoIP over wireless. This paper is centered on the VoIPoW service. We describe our VoIPoW implementation and its adaptation to the Neutral Operator environment. Our results show that even in absence of QoS mechanisms, WLAN technology is adequate in practical terms for VoIPoW deployment.
1st Mosharaka International Conference on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (MIC-MCWC 2006)
Congress
2006 Global Congress on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (GC-MCWC 2006), 17-20 September 2006, Amman, Jordan
Pages
--1
Topics
Wireless LANs and PANs Wireless Network Architectures and Deployments
ISSN
2227-331X
DOI
BibTeX
@inproceedings{210MCWC2006,
title={Offering VoIP services in a wireless neutral operator environment},
author={Jaume Barcelo, and Carlos Macian, and Enric Aragó, and Pol Novell, and Miquel Vidal},
booktitle={2006 Global Congress on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications (GC-MCWC 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={--1},
doi={}},
organization={Mosharaka for Research and Studies}
}
