Abstract:
A device determines a communication failure associated with a first network, and selects, based on the communication failure, a failover device from a list of failover devices. The device and the failover devices communicate via short-range communications, and the selected failover device connects to a second network. The device provides, to the selected failover device, a request to receive a service from the first network, and determines whether the selected failover device accepts the request. When the selected failover device accepts the request, the device establishes a communication channel with the selected failover device, and receives the service from the first network via the selected failover device, the communication channel, and the second network.
Abstract:
An approach for dynamically adapting bandwidth consumption is described. A token based access platform determines at least one tier of service of a network provider to associate with a request for the use of bandwidth of a wireless access network based on the assignment of a unique token to a user and/or a node associated with the user. The platform then generates, in real-time, an instruction to adapt the amount of bandwidth to be shared by the node associated with the user based on the determination.