Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for the Consumer - The Power of Privacy

For anyone who studies flows it seems that the hubaccomplished. And as long as everyone had extended
and spoke system of distribution is alive and well. Muchbattery life of their personal communication devices
of this is because of the brilliance of the Fred Smith,such as iPad or smart phone, companies like Verizon,
founder and chairman of FedEx, when he wrote aSprint, and AT&T could make more money and have
Harvard business school report and business plan onless capital expenditure.
transferring large Federal Reserve notes by aircraftThis would relate directly to greater quarterly profits,
and distributing them to the various that banks. I believeand perhaps a good size reduction in everyone's cell
on his infamous college report he got only a C grade.phone bill. In doing this, it would give consumers more
Although later, this spoke and hub concept went on toprivacy, because their data would never go to a cell
become the distribution model for FedEx, at thetower where it could be compromised, or intercepted
Memphis sort. It is often cited in business books asby those who wanted access to it. Such as our
rather ironic because as we know this became one ofgovernment for instance, and so let's talk a little bit
the greatest companies of all-time, and FedEx hasabout that:
revolutionized the over-night shipping business and allWhenever we leave backdoors in our technology to
of the distribution industry for that matter.allow the good guys to look at the data, or information
However, eventually FedEx also realized that takingthat is flowing through, we inadvertently gives access
packages all the way to the Memphis Sort and backto the bad guys, as they search the software code
again was not always the most efficient way to do itfor those secret gates which allow our intelligence
once they had many regional offices. Instead, it madeagencies in, in the first place.
sense to send some of those packages directly to theBy sending the data packets of information from
next regional office nearby, bypassing the hub. In doingphone to phone, where they will be accumulated by
so, they reverted some of their distribution to thethe receiving phone as they come in, each packet
point-to-point model, which has also re-taken hold inwould be highly dispersed, and unreadable, or irrelevant
recent years, perhaps the reason why Boeing isin and of itself. However all the data packets coming
building 737s (backlogged orders for years in advancetogether in the receiving phone would display the
in fact) still, and Airbus went for the A380 which canmessage, or the voice phone message for the
hold more people than a 747.intended user.
Now then, let's talk about how cell phone inThere are pros and cons to not being able to monitor
data-packets move around, and are distributed. Whenall that data, such as this use of smart-phone
you are on your cell phone it sends that data to thetechnology by; smart mob protesters, ELF homegrown
nearest cell tower, and at cell tower the data eitherterrorists, or even terrorists planning an attack, or
goes to a landline, and takes the information acrossplanting roadside bombs. This is because you couldn't
the country, to its intended destination, which may beintercept the cell phone transmission by its electronic
another cell tower to another mobile user, or toserial number or ESN at the cell tower anymore, as
someone with a landline.most of the traffic would bypass.
Okay so, what if all the data went from your personalNow let's consider the issues where a group of
tech smart-cell-phone-device to another personal cellterrorists with machine guns tried to take over a hotel
phone device directly, bypassing the cell tower? Whatin Mumbai, since they were all using cell phones, the
if there were other phones in the area and you weregovernment of India could have intercepted that
making a local call, it might hop three-or-four cellinformation at the cell tower, and therefore they
phones to get there, never once going to the cellcould've caught them and prevented that chaos
tower; like a walkie-talkie, rather than a trunkedbefore the terrorists had started. But, if also cell
two-way radio.phones are working like walkie-talkies on steroids and
That would make sense because most cell phonemore like the Internet model in sending their packets of
calls are local calls, and nowadays the people usinginformation all over the place all coming together any
their cell phone are calling or texting someone nearbyindividual terrorist cell phone as they communicated,
them in the same city within a 3 mile radius, and it justthey be virtually unstoppable.
happens to be about the same radius for the cellYou can see that's a serious problem, however, you
towers. If you will recall before 3G wireless, the cellcan see where it would be wonderful to be able to
towers were 10 miles apart, and then they were 3expand the number of users on any given cell phone
miles apart.network, freeing up frequencies, and have each of the
But even if the person you are contacting was 15phones talking to each other delivering the data as if
miles away, the data-packets could go from your cellthey were a node or mote in a system of distribution
phone, to someone else's cell phone 3 miles away, towhich used cell towers sometimes, and peer-to-peer
someone else's cell phone 3 miles away, and then topersonal tech device at other times, or a combination
the cell phone you are calling, and each time it wouldthereof. Actually rerouting traffic with whatever was
bypass the cell tower completely, unless the intendedbest for the network at the time, which is almost like
receiver was at a landline. But why would you wish tohow the Internet works anyway isn't it? Almost but not
do that you ask?quite.
It's simple really, because you can put more users onTherefore, if we used a strategy of point-to-point, plus
the network, if you are using the cell towers less. As inhub and spoke, we get the best of all worlds, and we
20-times as many, and that's a lot of data flow, and acan increase network traffic, as perhaps 70 or 80%
much more efficient model, for at least a good chunkwere freed up. Thus, we could take on more data too,
of the traffic. Major cost savings is an understatement.allow more onboard data transfer for video projection,
This could save tens of billions of dollars in theholographic movies, downloadable movies on the go,
construction of new cell towers for the up-and-comingetc. However, there are also problems with this, which
4 G & 5G wireless strategies which will be our futureneed to be addressed, along with the increased
system in mobile technologies. Since cell phones areefficiency, and added privacy for the end-user. Please
already a send and receive device, this could easily beconsider all this.