7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06)
Wireless Information Sharing in Ubiquitous Environments
Nara, Japan
May 10-May 12
ISBN: 0-7695-2526-1
Satoko Itaya, ATR Adaptive Communication Research Laboratories, Japan
Jun Hasegawa, ATR Adaptive Communication Research Laboratories, Japan
Peter Davis, ATR Adaptive Communication Research Laboratories, Japan
Naoto Kadowaki, ATR Adaptive Communication Research Laboratories, Japan
Sadao Obana, ATR Adaptive Communication Research Laboratories, Japan
We demonstrate the use of ad hoc multi-hop flooding for sharing information among mobile terminals. PDA devices with 802.11 WLAN cards are used as mobile terminals which periodically broadcast position and other presence information. Each terminal relays packets broadcast by neighbors using ayooding algorithm which has been optimized for fast propagation of information over multiple hops. We also report results of systematic experiments using 50 terminals showing characteristic propagation time distributions for up to 5 hops.
Citation:
Satoko Itaya, Jun Hasegawa, Peter Davis, Naoto Kadowaki, Sadao Obana, "Wireless Information Sharing in Ubiquitous Environments," mdm, pp.54, 7th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'06), 2006