Title :
Towards mobile ad-hoc WANs: terminodes
Author :
J.-P. Hubaux;J.-Y. Le Boudec;S. Giordano;M. Hamdi;L. Blazevic;L. Buttyan;M. Vojnovic
Author_Institution :
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Terminodes are personal devices that provide functionality of both the terminals and the nodes of the network. A network of terminodes is an autonomous, fully self-organized, wireless network, independent of any infrastructure. It must be able to scale up to millions of units, without any fixed backbone or server. In this paper we present the main challenges and discuss the main technical directions.
Keywords :
"Wide area networks","Spine","Network servers","Business","Wireless networks","Switches","Routing","Scalability","IP networks","Cities and towns"
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6596-8
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2000.904773
