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RevMike writes "The New York Times (reg required) is reporting that Bell Labs/Lucent has developed a method to multiply the bandwidth of cellular networks by using multipath. Robert Lucky developed the system called Blast. He claims that it should multiply the data rates in existing spectrum 300% to 400%. One prototype took a network from 2.5Mb/s to 19.2 Mb/s. Interestingly, the system works better in cluttered environments." And on a related note, Kimberley Burchett writes "The latest Physics News Update mentions that skyscrapers could actually help wireless communication. 'The more scatterers between the transmitters and receivers, the more channels that are available. For the time being, the communication technique is limited to ultrasonic communication - the electronics necessary for exploiting scatterers with wide-band time-reversal antennas at cell phone frequencies simply don't yet exist.'"
wide-band time-reversal antennas ... simply don't exist yet.
And in related news, still no flying cars.
So far, this new millennium sucks.
/syle
First, it's people yakking on the cell phone in the movie theater.
Now it going to be people wanking off to their live-feed pr0n delived to their cellular in the movie theater.
Lovely....
I thought that was Robert Blake?
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The latest Physics News Update mentions that skyscrapers could actually help wireless communication.
I never would have imagined that a tall, slender, permanent, cellphone tower-like structure could serve as a cellphone tower.
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"...the electronics necessary for exploiting scatterers with wide-band time-reversal antennas at cell phone frequencies simply don't yet exist."
Perhaps if someone would fall and hit their head on the toilet, then they would come up with the means for time-reversal. Tell me future boy, why do we need screen savers on our mobile phone LCD screens?
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
It took the physics guys this long to figure out that a beowulf cluster of skyscrappers works better ?
Ducks...;)
Brigham Young University is doing similar work on MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) systems.
:)
There is a joke about polygamy lying in this statement.
Sorry, had to be said