Access and Path Selection in Ambient Networks

As the choice of wireless network technologies increases and different wireless network technologies are connected together the bottleneck of a path will not necessarily be the first access link. Instead a link further upstream could be the bottleneck. This paper introduces a novel generalisation of access selection which takes properties beyond the first hop into consideration for the selection of path for communication. The motivation for design choices and the algorithms involved in the access and path selection are explained. In addition, a use case is included to describe the solution and illustrate its benefits.