December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 13m
English
The merits of having an infrastructureless network were discovered in the 1970s. At that time, computers were bulky and so were radio transceivers. DARPA had a project known as packet radio, where several wireless terminals could communicate with one another on a battlefield. Packet radio was a technology that extended the concept of packet switching (which evolved from point-to-point communication metworks) to the domain of broadcast radio networks. During the 1970s, the ALOHA [12] project at the University of Hawaii demonstrated the feasibility of using the broadcasting property of radios to send/receive data packets in a single radio hop system. The ALOHA project later led ...
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