Wireless Bandwidth Aggregation For Wireless Traffic

Computer networking often pushes the limit of available bandwidth. Although bandwidth speed has historically increased 10 fold in recent years, reusing existing materials to achieve comparable results to installing new infrastructure is typically preferred. Moreover, the failure of one high speed link results in a significant drop in a network’s instantaneous bandwidth. Bandwidth aggregation allows for the combining of multiple network links into one logical interface with the combined bandwidth of the supporting links. This comes with the benefit of fail over redundancy, allowing the network to adapt and recover from link failures. This has been achieved at the lowest 3 layers of the OSI model, with both proprietary and open software solutions in existence that get the job done.But it has yet to become pervasive in growing WiFi and WAN networks. Implementations at this level have been proposed (such as Multipath TCP), only a fraction of which are realizable by the typical consumer, due to the slow adoption speed of emerging aggregation protocols. This MQP proposes a new method for bandwidth aggregation, utilize-able by the typical home network owner. The methods explained herein aggregate a network of coordinating routers within local WiFi communication range to achieve increased bandwidth at the application layer, over the HTTP protocol. Our protocol guarantees content delivery and reliability, as well as non-repudiation measures that hold each participant, rather then the group of routers, accountable for the content they download.