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Virtual WiFi: bring virtualization from wired to wireless

Authors:

Praveen Gopalakrishnan,

Sebastian Schoenberg,

Xingang GuoAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 46, Issue 7

Pages 181 - 192

https://doi.org/10.1145/2007477.1952706

Published: 09 March 2011 Publication History

Abstract

As virtualization trend is moving towards "client virtualization", wireless virtualization remains to be one of the technology gaps that haven't been addressed satisfactorily. Today's approaches are mainly developed for wired network, and are not suitable for virtualizing wireless network interface due to the fundamental differences between wireless and wired LAN devices that we will elaborate in this paper. We propose a wireless LAN virtualization approach named virtual WiFi that addresses the technology gap. With our proposed solution, the full wireless LAN functionalities are supported inside virtual machines; each virtual machine can establish its own connection with self-supplied credentials; and multiple separate wireless LAN connections are supported through one physical wireless LAN network interface. We designed and implemented a prototype for our proposed virtual WiFi approach, and conducted detailed performance study. Our results show that with conventional virtualization overhead mitigation mechanisms, our proposed approach can support fully functional wireless functions inside VM, and achieve close to native performance of Wireless LAN with moderately increased CPU utilization.

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 46, Issue 7

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July 2011

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ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/2007477

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VEE '11: Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS international conference on Virtual execution environments
March 2011
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DOI:10.1145/1952682
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