[cap-talk] phones as routers

[Karp, Alan H]

John Carlson wrote:
> 
> Obviously, I am not a network engineer, who would tell me 
> there are a  
> limited number of frequencies available, and someone needs to  
> allocate frequencies.  I would ask if they could measure power and  
> direction of the signal.  Putting in a few more
> sensors into a cell phone may give you enough information to 
> sort out  
> who is saying what.
> 
David Reed has done some interesting work in this area.  The more phones
there are in an area, the less power each phone needs to use to get its
call forwarded.  You also need fewer total frequencies because the range
of each hop is so short.

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