[MLB-WIRELESS] Fw: Idea - Security by amplitude recognition

[paul van den bergen]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 11:11 am, vak at alphalink.com.au wrote:
> (James Gardiner, i don't have your email address to cross post this to you)
>
> It's a nice idea, but won't work.

Actually, it's not even a nice idea, even if it did work...  It's just a 
variation on Security by Obsurity....

Where it does have merit is in noise control...  Y'all are probably aware that 
the power output and number of users of a mobile phone transmitter are 
inversely linked. The size of the cells coverage increases and contracts 
depending on the number of users.  Wifi should do the same, especially in 
adhoc networks.  Think of it as graceful failover control or proximity based 
admition control.  Or as guarenteeing the lowest power (and thus noise) able 
to just reach your "customers".



-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
caia.swin.edu.au
pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
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"And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones 
to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. 
They say it is to see how the world was made."
Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 


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