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Syed Ali Jafar: Making military wireless networks larger and faster

When the military needs to send covert messages over its wireless networks, it cloaks the transmissions in virtual "noise" or chatter. This method hides secret ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

September 25, 2015 1:37 pm

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When the military needs to send covert messages over its wireless networks, it cloaks the transmissions in virtual "noise" or chatter. This method hides secret communications effectively, but also consumes a lot of bandwidth, which limits message size and speed. Syed Ali Jafar is a research professor at the University of California Irvine. He's been working on a way to make military wireless networks larger, faster and able to accommodate more users, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research.