Sending Data In Bursts of SMS Messages 181
An anonymous reader writes "Canadian carrier Rogers has been experiencing some extreme loads of late, as researchers at the University of Waterloo investigate the potential for sending data spread across bursts of hundreds of text messages. They sent around 80,000 messages in the course of a project testing a new protocol able to cram 32KB into 250 messages sent from a BlackBerry, reaching a rate of 20 bytes per second. The group thinks its protocol could be useful in rural areas of the developing world where text messaging is the only affordable, reliable link."
Cram it! (Score:1, Funny)
Oops (Score:5, Funny)
My 300 baud modem shivered... (Score:5, Funny)
...and got to feel the thrill of competition again.
Big money, no wammies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why bother? (Score:4, Funny)
If it's anything else, drive to Starbucks for free wifi.
Because Starbucks is so commonplace in the "rural areas of the developing world."
This is Tailor-Made for... (Score:5, Funny)
... next year's April 1 RFC -- "IP over SMS Carrier".
Neato! (Score:5, Funny)
This is good news (everyone), by the time you have torrented your bluray rip, it will be out of copyright.
Or not.
Re:My 300 baud modem shivered... (Score:3, Funny)
So the clear answer is voice-over-ip-over-sms
Yak Protocol (Score:5, Funny)
Maximum carrying load of a Yak: 70kg
Weight of a 32GB micro sd card. 0.5g
Having your own 3rd world petabit network: priceless.
What do you mean? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:so now will they bill $1 per txt each way? (Score:1, Funny)
so now will they bill $1 per txt each way?
Good. Maybe teenagers will start paying attention in school.
Now get off my lawn!
Re:Yak Protocol (Score:2, Funny)
This like WiFi degrades significantly with distance..
Doing some rough math.. A Yak that can go 5km/hour when fully loaded using your numbers can Transter about 25 Peta-bytes per second over 1 Meter... at 25 Meters your down to 1 Peta-byte/s.. This is Payload Only.. It does not include packing or transferring information on and off the SD's. The Latency would be extremely high... I am gussing that the Protocols that have been developed for data transmissions to the Moon might still not have enough forgiveness to hand the latency of this.