DocumentCode
346013
Title
Wireless message courier
Author
Liu, Te-Kai ; Maruyama, Kiyoshi ; Greenwood, Michael C.
Author_Institution
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
124
Abstract
Wireless coverage is often problematic. This is especially true for mobile radio networks, e.g., cellular networks. It is a very frustrating experience for a mobile user finding out that he is out of the coverage of his wireless service provider when he needs to send an emergency message. This paper proposes a method and system for delivering electronic messages over a wireless cellular communications network when the sender of a message is out of the coverage area. With this method the message is broadcasted repeatedly until a mobile wireless courier receives the message and stores the message. When the courier is within range of a base station of the cellular communication network, it then transmits the stored message to the base station for delivery
Keywords
cellular radio; electronic messaging; base station; cellular networks; coverage; electronic messages; emergency message; mobile radio networks; mobile user; mobile wireless courier; stored message; wireless message courier; Base stations; Broadcasting; Cellular phones; Communication networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Milling machines; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Rivers; Wireless communication;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE
Conference_Location
New Orleans, LA
ISSN
1525-3511
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5668-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/WCNC.1999.797799
Filename
797799
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