An ad-hoc storage system for hotspot service

Hotspot wireless service attracts more and more attention all over the world. The demands for convenient, low-power, cost-effective, reliable hotspot access service urges the new technology emerging. The existing wireless access service system could not fulfill all of the above requirements for quickly growing users. Wireless AP (access point) and router system provide only networks access service, no additional service, these systems have limited performance due to the TCP throughput drop in heterogeneous environment. In our proposed solution - Lynx hotspot service system, we provide the system for hotspot service which achieved balance among good throughput, concurrent user capacity and energy saving. The system caches the data from Internet while serving access users, also using distributed caching method in the wireless service area. The result of our preparatory evaluation of the system shows that it can outperform the conventional hotspot service systems.