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How can we increase the capillarity of the Net without facing the daunting issues that come with large-scale infrastructures? Can we embed all necessary protocols into our terminals and then use the terminals themselves to relay packets? This chapter develops the vision of ubiquitous connectivity, pinpointing foundations and problems. Networks made without any dedicated hardware are possible, but require new protocols. Here, we discover how to build spontaneous, ad hoc networks starting from extremely simple mechanisms.
There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death, and there’s being off the network
Dr. Guy Almes, Leader at Texas A&M University
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Liotta, A., Exarchakos, G. (2011). Spontaneous Networks. In: Networks for Pervasive Services. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1473-1_4
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