Monday, November 15, 2010

Networking Environment

I've been stuck on this for a couple days now. Here's what I need to talk about:

  • That WiFi and 3G interfaces have different characteristics. WiFi is shorter range and varies in quality a lot more. 3G doesn't offer communication with what we might consider peer devices... only infrastructure.
  • I feel like I need to talk about why they're different. They both use the airspace around us, but they have different characteristics. ... does my audience know why or need to know why?
  • I need mention Bluetooth.
  • I need to put things in a broader context of what any wireless radio and network protocol offer where Bluetooth, UMTS/EVDO (3G), 802.11, and LTE/WiMax (sub-4G) are just the current incarnations.
  • Must introduce the concept of a contact: coming in and out of communication range
  • The idea of a contact implies the importance of movement in wireless networks.
  • It's the nature of the patient's movements that we have to study.
  • Ask how the general intermingling of a population expresses itself in a time-varying network graph (not the first to ask this question).

And I'm probably going to come up with more too.

The section should ultimately arrive at the

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