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REAL TIME STREAMING OF DATA.  A FLOOD OF DATA QMESH USES SYNCHRONIZED
FLOODING TO PROVIDE THESE CAPABILITIES.  SYNCHRONIZED FLOODING IS A PACKET
RELAY TECHNIQUE WHERE EVERY NODE REPEATS THE DATA IT RECEIVES AT ROUGHLY
THE SAME TIME.  A MAJOR DRAWBACK OF SYNCHRONIZED FLOODING, HOWEVER, IS THE
SELF INTERFERENCE THAT OCCURS FROM THESE SIMULTANEOUS RETRANSMISSIONS.
QMESH USES A FEW TECHNIQUES TO MITIGATE THIS SELF INTERFERENCE.  FIRST, IT
EMPLOYS FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION FEC TO CORRECT INTERFERENCE INDUCED
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ERRORS.  SECOND, QMESH RANDOMLY VARIES THE CENTER FREQUENCY OF
TRANSMISSIONS BY 25 OF THE LORA WAVEFORMS BANDWIDTH COMMON LORA SPREAD
SPECTRUM BANDWIDTHS INCLUDE 125 KHZ, 250 KHZ, AND 500 KHZ.  FINALLY, QMESH
RANDOMLY ADDS A TIMING OFFSET OF UP TO HALF OF A LORA SYMBOL PERIOD.  WITH
A SPREAD SPECTRUM WAVE FORM LIKE LORA, THE LAST TWO TECHNIQUES REDUCE THE
OVERLAP BETWEEN CONCURRENT TRANSMISSIONS, WHICH INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD
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