Reading Review for Class 22
This class’s readings are:
Your review should include both a summary of these papers, which
discusses
- the problem the paper addresses
- the paper’s solution
- the evidence the paper provides that the solution was
correct. Remember to keep in mind the historical context the
papers discuss.
Your review should also discuss, after the summary:
- whether the problem the paper solved is an important
one
- whether the solution was a good one
- whether the paper was fun or enjoyable to read.
- what questions you have about the paper, or which parts of the paper
(if any) you found hard to understand.
You should answer the above questions in about one sentence each. The
remainder of your review (about the below questions) should be about a
page (~500 words) long.
Finally, for this week’s paper, please reflect on the following
questions:
- CityMesh requires communicating users to share postbox information
out-of-band (described in section 3), and this postbox information is
specific to a location (an AP). How would you modify CityMesh’s design
to enable user mobility? Why do you think the CityMesh authors designed
their addressing system in this way?
- Two traditional problems in wireless networking are the “hidden node
problem” and the “exposed node
problem”. Would RFocus’s beamforming-based approach to wireless
transmission make one or both of these problems better or worse (or have
no effect)?