Using ATM for a Campus-Scale Wireless Internet

Abstract

This paper reviews the problem of routing in a wireless internet, and discusses a plan that combines wireless network technology with high-speed A synchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching technology. The combination provides a wireless communication system with sufficient aggregate bandwidth to handle both data transfers and routing updates for a university sized network. More importantly, this paper details why wireless communication is a particularly difficult problem on a university campus, and describes a routing update mechanzsm that can scale to routing on a large campus.