Embracing Interference in Wireless Systems : Morgan & Claypool Publishers : 9781627054744 : 162705474X : 30 Jun 2014 : The wireless medium is a shared resource. If nearby devices transmit at thesame time, their signals interfere, resulting in a collision. In traditionalnetworks, collisions cause the loss of the transmitted information. For thisreason, wireless networks have been designed with the assumption thatinterference is intrinsically harmful and must be avoided.This book, a revised version of the author's award-winning Ph.D.dissertation, takes an alternate approach: Instead of viewing interferenceas an inherently counterproductive phenomenon that should to be avoided, wedesign practical systems that transform interference into a harmless, andeven a beneficial phenomenon. To achieve this goal, we consider how wirelesssignals interact when they interfere, and use this understanding in oursystem designs. Specifically, when interference occurs, the signals getmixed on the wireless m