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Connecting the Islands – Enabling Global Connectivity through Local Cooperation

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In this work we consider the interconnection of islands formed by neighbouring devices in a highly dynamic topology. To allow for high mobility we take offset in a purely wireless infrastructure where all devices incorporate a global and a local wireless communication interface. We consider cooperation as a means to improve the utilization of these interfaces. Furthermore we reflect on the use of network coding as a technique for decreasing the complexity of cooperative strategies and presents obstacles that must be addressed before network coding can be deployed.

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Heide, J., Pedersen, M.V., Fitzek, F.H.P., Larsen, T. (2009). Connecting the Islands – Enabling Global Connectivity through Local Cooperation. In: Hesselman, C., Giannelli, C. (eds) Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications - Workshops. MOBILWARE 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 12. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03569-2_16

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