Paper Info
Title
Data broadcasting using mobile FM radio: design, realization and application
Abstract
In this work, we offer a novel system, MicroStation (μStation) that allows ubiquitous data broadcasting applications using the FM radio on mobile devices such as smartphones. μStation includes two key modules to enable data broadcasting based on existing mobile FM radio hardware. Channel Selector assigns different FM channels to neighboring μStation broadcasters to avoid collision and guides μStation listeners to find their broadcasting of interest. Data Codec realizes bit-level communication between mobile devices through existing FM radio hardware. We describe an implementation of μStation on the Nokia N900 smartphone, and provide low-level APIs and services to support application development. We also demonstrate two representative applications: Facebook-FM and Sync-Flash. These applications demonstrate the capability of μStation to readily enable a new class of ubiquitous data broadcasting applications on mobile devices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2030112.2030146
UbiComp
Keywords
Field
DocType
channel selector,different fm channel,data codec,fm radio,mobile device,mobile fm radio hardware,ubiquitous data,station broadcaster,fm radio hardware,station listener,mobile devices,application development
Mobile computing,Broadcasting,Mobile search,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile device,Digital broadcasting,Mobile Web,Radio Data System,Codec
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hang Yu117412.41
Ahmad Rahmati279358.98
Ardalan Amiri Sani314921.84
Lin Zhong43131213.03
Jehan Wickramasuriya543731.34
Venu Vasudevan662159.19