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Peer to Peer SMS Article on O'Reilly

Submitted by Brian McConnell (not verified) on Sat, 2005-11-05 10:40.

You might be interested in an article I wrote for O'Reilly in 2001. In this piece I proposed modifying phones to allow SMS relay. Mesh networking for voice is problematic for a number of reasons. However for SMS, you can implement a simple store-and-forward mechanism with best effort routing. It might take messages a while to escape an area that has been "islanded" but eventually they'll be delivered.

SMS Relay - An Idea For Fault Tolerant Communications

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