An infrared network for mobile computers

  • Authors:

  • Norman Adams;Rich Gold;Bill N. Schilit;Michael M. Tso;Roy Want

  • Affiliations:

  • Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation;Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation;Computer Science Department, Columbia University;EECS Department, MIT;Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox Corporation

  • Venue:
  • MLCS Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium on Mobile & Location-Independent Computing Symposium
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The infrared network provides a flexible infrastructure for research into wireless mobile computing. The network consists of a collection of room-sized cells each wired with a base station transceiver. Mobile computers communicate with transceivers through a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocol and act as terminals for applications executing on remote hosts. Each mobile computer is represented by a proxy, or agent, accessible to applications at a fixed network address. In the system it is the agent that is responsible for delivering requests to its corresponding mobile computer, and tracking the mobile as it moves from cell to cell.