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I've been guilty lately about getting a little overhyped about 5g, mainly because of the possibility of p2p connectivity. Device-to-device would obviously be re

by nathcd 10y ago

I've been guilty lately about getting a little overhyped about 5g, mainly because of the possibility of p2p connectivity. Device-to-device would obviously be really useful for IoT applications, which it seems like a lot of industry research has been focused on. A few links from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G#Research to 5g literature: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.00674.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.00674.pdf https://www.ericsson.com/research-blog/5g/device-device-communications/ https://www.ericsson.com/research-blog/5g/device-device-comm... http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&tp=&arnumber=6815897 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru... I'm just talking out of my rear end now, but it'd be so cool if devices could form 5g mesh connections without connecting to the backbone. I enjoy imagining what it would be like if we could do for connectivity what bittorrent did for file hosting.

Natanael_L 10y ago
LTE Direct is already in the works, so the same thing could easily happen for 5G.
awqrre 10y ago
Adhoc Wi-Fi is not being supported by Google on Android [0]... What makes you think that they would allow p2p on 5g? 0. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82
- nathcd 10y ago
  > What makes you think that they would allow p2p on 5g? That's a good point. The answer that comes to mind (again, just pulling this out of my rear end) is that Google would benefit from more people having more ubiquitous and cheap internet access. As long as at least one device somewhere in a given mesh is connected to the backbone, so is the whole mesh, and then more Google ads can be seen. In other words, for similar reasons as Google Fiber. And then I'd think Android Wear/TV/Auto devices could benefit from better p2p connectivity as well.

by nathcd 10y ago

Natanael_L 10y ago

LTE Direct is already in the works, so the same thing could easily happen for 5G.

awqrre 10y ago

Adhoc Wi-Fi is not being supported by Google on Android [0]... What makes you think that they would allow p2p on 5g? 0. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82 https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

nathcd 10y ago
> What makes you think that they would allow p2p on 5g? That's a good point. The answer that comes to mind (again, just pulling this out of my rear end) is that Google would benefit from more people having more ubiquitous and cheap internet access. As long as at least one device somewhere in a given mesh is connected to the backbone, so is the whole mesh, and then more Google ads can be seen. In other words, for similar reasons as Google Fiber. And then I'd think Android Wear/TV/Auto devices could benefit from better p2p connectivity as well.