NIMBLE: Many-Time, Many-Where Communication Support for Information Systems in Highly Mobile and Wireless Environments

Abstract

The goal of the research effort in NIMBLE is the design, evaluation, and deployment of information services using the concept of Infostations. The architecture consists of a ubiquitous low bandwidth wireless network which is augmented with convenient and frequent access to isolated high bandwidth connections called Infostations. This network supports a many-time, many-where' communication paradigm that is suited for a wide variety of information services. Different prototypes of Infostations to serve the need of pedestrians and highly mobile users were designed. Downloads of large size files are made possible by strategic placement of Infostations. An additional aspect of this work is our consideration of asymmetric' transmission to achieve very small, very low cost terminals having very low energy requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA398325

Entities

People

  • B. R. Badrinath
  • David Goodman
  • Richard Frenkiel
  • Tomasz Imielinski

Organizations

  • Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Bandwidth
  • Computer Networks
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Links
  • Data Rate
  • Data Transmission
  • Environment
  • Information Systems
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Prototypes
  • Software Development
  • Students
  • Terminals
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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