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Advanced Wireless Communication for the Transportation Sector

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1. ISART stands for International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies. It hosts an annual conference that serves the government radio and technology market. back
2. A killer application (commonly shortened to killer app), in the jargon of computer programmers, has been used to refer to any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it provides the core value of some larger technology, such as a gaming console, software, operating system, or piece of computer hardware. Simply put, a killer app is an application so compelling that someone will buy the hardware or software components necessary to run it. back
3. Dash Express touts itself as the first two-way, Internet-connected GPS navigation system. Its GPS unit leverages the SIRFstarIII satellite signal processor, the Wi-Fi receiver and antenna connects to networks from a car using a high gain antenna, and the cellular radio and antenna uses cellular (GPRS) network to keep the device connected at all times. See www.dash.net. back
4. OSLR is a proactive link-state routing protocol that floods a topology table of its neighbors to all nodes in the network, which then compute optimal forwarding paths locally. back
5. Kaplan offered comments in the next several paragraphs after the roundtable took place, in order to provide additional detailed information about the OLSR project and his experiences with mesh networks. back
6. The Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model (OSI Reference Model or OSI Model for short) is a layered, abstract description for communications and computer network protocol design. It was developed as part of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) initiative and is sometimes known as the OSI seven-layer model. back
7. Moore's Law: the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. The observation was first made by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 paper. back

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