Subject: [manet] FlashLinq

From: M Scott Corson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:53:32 -0500

Hey everyone...

I heard there was a little discussion about FlashLinq on this list, so
I thought I'd clarify a few things:

* It's not yet commercially available.  :-(

* It's designed to run synchronously in dedicated TDD spectrum.

* It can support multi-hop networking, though it need not (and often
would not) be used in that fashion.

We publicly announced it at MWC in Barcelona.  There's a video of a
demo somewhere on enGadget.

Here's a website with some details.

http://www.qualcomm.com/research/flashlinq

In particular, a recent IEEE Wireless Comms paper gives some insight
into the thinking behind its design.

http://www.qualcomm.com/documents/toward-proximity-aware-internetworking

Cheers,

-Scott & Vince