ACENET: architectures and protocols for high throughput, low power, and QoS provisioning in next-generation mobile communications

In this paper, we propose the Ad-hoc Cellular Network (ACENET), a heterogeneous wireless network architecture for 3.5-generation (3.5G) and fourth-generation (4G) mobile systems. We propose an IP-based integrated wireless routing scheme for the integration of heterogeneous wireless networking technologies in 3.5G and 4G ACENET. We also propose an integrated wireless MAC scheme for 4G ACENET. ACENET integrates cellular networks, wireless LAN, and ad hoc networks and enables heterogeneous wireless devices and technologies such as CDMA, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, and/or HiperLAN/2 to coexist and assist each other for communications with higher throughput, lower power, better quality-of-service (QoS), versatility, and low cost.

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