A companion to Sorta standard wireless research
Infostations
Patience has its rewards
If you are willing to wait until you happen to be near a base station, you can get your bits far more cheaply than if you insist on connectivity everywhere, always. Opportunism beats coverage, so long as delay is something you can spend.
Papers & chapters
The infostations work
- WCNC '04 Exploiting Mobility in Multihop Infostation Networks to Decrease Transmit Power F. Atay and C. Rose, March 2004.
- CISS '04 Threshold-Based Policies in Mobile Infostation Networks F. Atay and C. Rose, Princeton, March 2004.
- WCNC '00 MINE MINE MINE: Information Theory, Infostation Networks and Resource Sharing A. Iacono and C. Rose, paper A1.1, Chicago 2000.
- Chapter Infostations: A New Perspective on Wireless Data Networks In Next Generation Wireless Networks (S. Tekinay, ed.), Kluwer, May 2000. Also as PostScript.
- TR 167 Minimizing File Delivery Delay in an Infostation System A.L. Iacono and C. Rose, WINLAB Technical Report, August 1998.
- VTC '00 Bounds on File Delivery Delay in an Infostations System A.L. Iacono and C. Rose, Tokyo, May 2000.
Elsewhere
Related reading
- Talk Paul Baran's prescient interference-avoidance and infostations talk 8th Conference on Next Generation Networks, Washington D.C., 9 November 1994. Baran, who invented packet switching, got there rather early.
- Sig Proc Challenges in Low-Cost Wireless Data Transmission R. Yates et al., IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
- Origins Infostations, the original idea D.J. Goodman, J. Borras, N.B. Mandayam and R.D. Yates, INFOSTATIONS: A New System Model for Data and Messaging Services, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 1997.
- Related Randy Katz on wireless and mobile networking Berkeley. The link on the old page never resolved.
- More Interference avoidance The other half of the unlicensed-spectrum story.