Reading Aguayo et al

The reading for Friday’s class is a seminal wireless research paper. What makes this paper especially interesting experimentally is that while it is astoundingly careful, deep, and complete, ultimately one of the major conclusions of the paper turns out to be incorrect. Furthermore, this error is due to a mistake in the experimental methodology. This document explains the error and provides enough of a background in wireless to (hopefully) understand it. Many of the observations in the paper are correct: it’s just one, albeit a major one, that is not.