physics.org: Wi-FM listens to FM signals to determine best times to send and receive data

One minute your wireless Internet is working fine. The next minute, it takes an infuriatingly slow five seconds to load a single Web page. You paid for the fastest Internet speed available but during these all-too-frequent times, it seems like the connection barely works at all. [more…]

Wi-FM: Resolving Neighborhood Wireless NetworkAffairs by Listening to Music written by Marcel Flores, Uri Klarman, and Aleksandar KuzmanovicElectrical Engineering and Computer Science Department Northwestern University (.pdf)