Open Space works with wireless transmitters too!

[Chris Corrigan]

Walking up to my knees in the fields of metaphor, I stumbled across this
piece on the physical limitations of wireless technology, which I quote
a little from:

"...the basic question of the limits on "spectrum capacity", as a
scientific question, is slowly developing answers - surprising ones. It
turns out that network cooperation increases capacity. Tim Shepard, in
his MIT Ph.D. thesis, demonstrated that capacity can increase as the
number of transmitters in an area increase, if they cooperate.
Communications theorists have demonstrated other approaches, such as
"space-time coding" that also increase capacity as the number of
transceivers increase."

The science isn't that hard to follow, but it's funny how even in the
field of hard core wireless communication, people have "a ha!" moments
when it comes to "openness", diversity and collaboration.

Full text is here:

http://www.satn.org/archive/2002_01_20_archive.html#8971522

Cheers,

Chris

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