@inproceedings{radunovic2010rethinking, author = {Radunovic, Bozidar and Gunawardena, Dinan and Key, Peter and Proutiere, Alexandre and Singh, Nikhil and Balan, Vlad and DeJean, Gerald}, title = {Rethinking Indoor Wireless Mesh Design: Low Power, Low Frequency, Full-duplex}, booktitle = {WiMesh (SECON Workshop)}, year = {2010}, month = {June}, abstract = {Existing indoor WiFi networks in the 2.5GHz and 5 GHz use too much transmit power, needed because the high carrier frequency limits signal penetration and connectivity. Instead, we propose a novel indoor wireless mesh design paradigm, based on Low Frequency, using the newly freed white spaces previously used as analogue TV bands, and Low Power – 100 times less power than currently used. Preliminary experiments show that this maintains a similar level of connectivity and performance to existing networks. It also yields more uniform connectivity, thus simplifies MAC and routing protocol design. We also advocate full-duplex networking in a single band, which becomes possible in this setting (because we operate at low frequencies). It potentially doubles the throughput of each link and eliminates hidden terminals.}, publisher = {IEEE Communications Society}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/rethinking-indoor-wireless-mesh-design-low-power-low-frequency-full-duplex/}, edition = {WiMesh (SECON Workshop)}, }