In this work, we offer a novel system, MicroStation (µStation) that allows ubiquitous data broadcasting applications using the FM radio on mobile devices such as smartphones. µStation includes two key modules to enable data broadcasting based on existing mobile FM radio hardware. Channel Selector assigns different FM channels to neighboring µStation broadcasters to avoid collision and guides µStation listeners interest. Data Codec realizes between mobile devices to find their broadcasting of bit-level communication existing through FM radio hardware. We describe an implementation of µStation on the Nokia N900 smartphone, and provide low-level APIs and services to support application development. We also demonstrate two representative applications: Facebook-FM and Sync-Flash. These applications demonstrate the capability of µStation to readily enable a new class of ubiquitous data broadcasting applications devices.
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Yu, H., Rahmati, A., Sani, A. A., Zhong, L., Wickramasuriya, J., & Vasudevan, V. (2011). Data broadcasting using mobile FM radio (pp. 247–256). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/2030112.2030146
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