The broadcast storm problem in a mobile ad hoc network
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
Learning to share: narrowband-friendly wideband networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Introduction to CDMA Wireless Communications
Introduction to CDMA Wireless Communications
An intelligent physical layer for cognitive radio networks
Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Wireless Internet
Multiuser detection in CDMA - a comparison of relaxations, exact, and heuristic search methods
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Fine-grained channel access in wireless LAN
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
SourceSync: a distributed wireless architecture for exploiting sender diversity
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
Listen (on the frequency domain) before you talk
Hotnets-IX Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
An architecture for software defined cognitive radio
Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems
Listen before you talk, but on the frequency domain
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Orthogonal feedback scheme for network coding
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
No time to countdown: migrating backoff to the frequency domain
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A-MAC: A versatile and efficient receiver-initiated link layer for low-power wireless
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Low power counting via collaborative wireless communications
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
CODIPHY: composing on-demand intelligent physical layers
Proceedings of the second workshop on Software radio implementation forum
Fine-grained channel access in wireless LAN
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Network protocol designers, both at the physical and network level, have long considered interference and simultaneous transmission in wireless protocols as a problem to be avoided. This, coupled with a tendency to emulate wired network protocols in the wireless domain, has led to artificial limitations in wireless networks. In this paper, we argue that wireless protocols can exploit simultaneous transmission to reduce the cost of reliable multicast by orders of magnitude. With an appropriate application interface, simultaneous transmission can also greatly speed up common group communication primitives, such as anycast, broadcast, leader election and others. The proposed method precisely fits into the domain of directly reachable nodes where many group communication mechanisms are commonly used in routing protocols and other physical-layer mechanisms. We demonstrate how simultaneous transmission can be used to implement a reliable broadcast for an infrastructure and peer-to-peer network using a prototype reconfigurable hardware. We also validate the notion of using simple spectrum sensing techniques to distinguish multiple transmissions. We then describe how the mechanism can be extended to solve group communication problems and the challenges inherent to build innovative protocols which are faster and reliable at the same time.