COMPUTING RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK [April 12 - April 18]
New software could alleviate wireless traffic
The explosive popularity of wireless devices—from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes—is increasingly clogging the airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections.
New software being developed at the University of Michigan works like a stoplight to control the traffic and dramatically reduce interference.
The software, GapSense, lets these devices that can't normally talk to one another exchange simple stop and warning messages so their communications collide less often. GapSense creates a common language of energy pulses and gaps. The length of the gaps conveys the stop or warning message. Devices could send them at the start of a communication, or in between information packets to let other gadgets in the vicinity know about their plans.
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Source: University of Michigan
Researchers:
Kang Shin (University of Michigan)
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