TY - GEN
T1 - Room-area networks
AU - Iannucci, Peter A.
AU - Netravali, Ravi
AU - Goyal, Ameesh K.
AU - Balakrishnan, Hari
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/11/16
Y1 - 2015/11/16
N2 - This paper makes the case for "Room-Area Networks" (RAN), a new category that falls between personal area networks and local area networks. In a RAN, a set of nodes can hear each other only if they are in the same room, broadly construed as being within earshot. We define a RAN abstraction, and we present example applications ranging from social contact management to building automation to gaming where this abstraction will help. The requirements of a RAN are poorly served by current technologies such as Bluetooth, near-field communication (NFC), Wi-Fi, and infrared. Acoustic channels, on the other hand, are well-suited in principle for effective propagation within human earshot and sharp attenuation at room boundaries. We provide a portable reference implementation of an 802.11a-like physical layer for the acoustic medium that works on current mobile devices, with successful communication even in noisy environments at distances over 8 meters.
AB - This paper makes the case for "Room-Area Networks" (RAN), a new category that falls between personal area networks and local area networks. In a RAN, a set of nodes can hear each other only if they are in the same room, broadly construed as being within earshot. We define a RAN abstraction, and we present example applications ranging from social contact management to building automation to gaming where this abstraction will help. The requirements of a RAN are poorly served by current technologies such as Bluetooth, near-field communication (NFC), Wi-Fi, and infrared. Acoustic channels, on the other hand, are well-suited in principle for effective propagation within human earshot and sharp attenuation at room boundaries. We provide a portable reference implementation of an 802.11a-like physical layer for the acoustic medium that works on current mobile devices, with successful communication even in noisy environments at distances over 8 meters.
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U2 - 10.1145/2834050.2834113
DO - 10.1145/2834050.2834113
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962643855
T3 - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-XIV 2015
BT - Proceedings of the 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-XIV 2015
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 14th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets-XIV 2015
Y2 - 16 November 2015 through 17 November 2015
ER -