{"id":169881,"date":"2008-02-27T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/vanlan-investigating-connectivity-from-moving-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T23:24:33","slug":"vanlan-investigating-connectivity-from-moving-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/vanlan-investigating-connectivity-from-moving-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"VanLan: Investigating Connectivity from Moving Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our goal is to enable cheap and high-throughput wireless connectivity to moving vehicles in urban areas.<\/p>\n

Our goal is to enable cheap and high-throughput wireless connectivity to moving vehicles in urban areas. The available options for such connectivity today fall short in significant ways. Cellular networks are expensive and have low throughput. Same is likely to be true of WiMax networks if they were to become a reality. While some exisiting WiFi basestations can provide opportunistic connectivity to passing vehicles, they are unable to support longer periods of connectivity. However, WiFi deployment is becoming denser and in many cases, entire cities are being covered. But given the short range of WiFi and the presence of many interferring sources, can such deployments enable continuous, cheap, high-throughput connectivity, by themselves or in conjunction with cellular and WiMax networks?<\/p>\n\t\t\t

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