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Itinerant Delivery of Popular Data via WIDE Hot Spots

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Wireless Information Delivery Environment (WIDE) is a distributed data dissemination system, which uses IEEE 802.11b technology. WIDE aims to deliver popular information services to registered mobile clients in WLAN hot spots. Data delivery is based on broadcasting and multicasting to provide scalability and efficient use of the wireless channel. Reliability is assured with a combination of Forward Error Correction (FEC), data carousel, and ARQ techniques. This paper presents the proposed system architecture with the details of reliable and secure data dissemination mechanisms. Functional evaluation of the proposed system and mechanisms on the implemented prototype are also included in this paper.

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    Sinan Isik, Mehmet Yunus Donmez & Cem Ersoy

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This work is partially supported by the State Planning Organization of Turkey under the grant number 98K120890, and by the Bogazici University Research Projects under the grant number 02A105D. A shorter version of this paper was presented in WONS 2004 in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy.

Sinan Isik received the B.S. degree in mathematics, and the M.S. degree in computer engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is currently working toward for the PhD degree in computer engineering in the same university. His research interests include wireless communication, wireless ad-hoc networks and wireless sensor networks.

Mehmet Yunus Donmez received his B.S. degree from Mathematics Department in 1999 and his MS degree from the Computer Engineering Department of Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2003. He is currently studying for his PhD degree in computer engineering. His research interests are wireless networks and content delivery systems, along with QoS, multicasting and fairness issues in MANETs.

Cem Ersoy received his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He worked as an R&D engineer in NETAS A.S. between 1984 and 1986. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York in 1992. Currently, he is a professor and department head in the Computer Engineering Department of Bogazici University. His research interests include performance evaluation and topological design of communication networks, wireless communications and mobile applications. Dr. Ersoy is a Senior Member of IEEE.

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Isik, S., Donmez, M.Y. & Ersoy, C. Itinerant Delivery of Popular Data via WIDE Hot Spots. Mobile Netw Appl 11, 297–307 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-006-4481-9

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