Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN)
Conceptual Layered Architecture
This figure
provides an initial conceptual architecture for the
wireless overlay internetworking and mobile applications support
services architecture to be pursued in the proposed research.
Although the functions are arrayed in layers, we do not believe
that a strictly layered architecture will be possible. For
example, applications support is likely to need hooks into
the transport and network layers. The final architecture, and
its detailed protocols and interface specifications, will be
developed as the main product of the research.
Working bottom up, the layers and the functionality they provide are:
Randy H. Katz, ed., randy@cs.Berkeley.edu; Last edited: 22 APR 95