Self-Healing Networks

  • Authors:
  • Robert Poor;Cliff Bowman;Charlotte Burgess Auburn

  • Affiliations:
  • Ember Corporation;Ember Corporation;Ember Corporation

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Wireless
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The obvious advantage to wireless communication over wired is, as they say in the real estate business, location, location, location. Individuals and industries choose wireless because it allows flexibility of location--whether that means mobility, portability, or just ease of installation at a fixed point. The challenge of wireless communication is that, unlike the mostly error-free transmission environments provided by cables, the environment that wireless communications travel through is unpredictable. Environmental radio-frequency (RF) "noise" produced by powerful motors, other wireless devices, microwaves--and even the moisture content in the air--can make wireless communication unreliable.