[CUWiN-Dev] Re: petition and other wireless F.U.D.

[David Young]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:50:29PM -0400, listsubs0506 wrote:
> A couple of interesting articles re: throughput in multi hop wireless 
> networks:
> 
> http://www.compliancepipeline.com/159905154

I cannot believe Francis da Costa has been at it for more
than a year, and his wacky analyses still get play.  See
<http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=4094_0_5_0_C> for the
first installment, my counter-arguments (which he dodges).

> I'd be curious whether any of you are in touch with P.R. Kumar and able 
> to determine whether he thinks his research has been properly used in 
> support of the arguments presented in the Petition. Some of those 
> arguments are remarkably dismissive of Wi-Fi and other systems that 
> might be used in the band, e.g., footnote 22:

We are acquainted with P.R. Kumar and his students at C-U Wireless.

> "In this regard, Petitioners note that Wi-Fi works because approximately 
> a dozen users (i.e., a very limited number of users) are sharing 90 MHz 
> of spectrum. In contrast, the FCC's new rules for the 3650 MHz band 

What's really extraordinary is that at least 100 of those 12 users are
in Champaign-Urbana.  But seriously, in what universe is this a serious
remark about WiFi scalability?  I will have more to say about this later,
when I have read the whole thing.

> or you can find the full set of about 9 Requests for Reconsideration in 
> that FCC Proceeding by entering 04-151 in the top left hand corner 
> search at www.fcc.gov... I'd be glad to send summaries/extracts of them 
> to anyone who's interested but doesn't have time to plow through them all.
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That does sound like me.

Dave

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