Wireless mesh networks, comprised of a large number of tiny nodes were set up in a specific area.

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Wi-Fi uses a number of smaller antennas, called "nodes, " to build a mesh network.

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His thesis was based on algorithms that describe how a large number of independent devices could beam data to one another, an approach called mesh networking.

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