throwbox

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

throw +‎ box

Noun[edit]

throwbox (plural throwboxes)

  1. (telecommunications) A stationary access point used to forward data in a delay-tolerant network.
    • 2016, Sudipta Saha, Animesh Mukherjee, Niloy Ganguly, “Coverage analysis of information dissemination in throwbox-augmented DTN”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      We identify that an information dissemination technique that exploits the throwbox infrastructure can cover only a fixed number of popular places irrespective of the time spent.
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