@Article{jain:airdisks, author = {Ravi Jain and John Werth}, title = {Airdisks and AirRAID: Modeling and scheduling periodic wireless data}, journal = {Computer architecture news}, year = {1995}, month = {September}, volume = {23}, number = {4}, pages = {23--28}, keywords = {wireless communication, mobile computing, RAID, parallel I/O, pario-bib}, comment = {They discuss the idea of broadcasting a disk's data over the air, so PDAs can 'read' the disk by waiting for the necessary data to come along. Good for read-only or write-rarely disks. They discuss the idea of dividing the air into multiple (frequency or time) tracks and 'striping' data across the tracks for better bandwidth and reliability.} }