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ABSTRACT

Wireless infrastructures are increasingly diverse, complex, and difficult to manage. Those who restrict themselves to homogeneous, managed campus or corporate networks are a vanishing breed. In the wild, users are confronted with many overlapping infrastructures with a broad variety of strengths and weaknesses. Such diversity of infrastructure is both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge lies in presenting the alternatives to applications and users in a way that provides the best possible utility to both. However, by managing these many alternatives, we can provide significant benefits, exploiting multiple networks concurrently and planning future transmissions intelligently.

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