https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1802.09262/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42607893urn:hackerpapers:mention:1802.09262:42607893Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:15:01 GMT<p>The LTE protocol is asymmetric between towers (eNodeB) and phones (UE). You could build srsRAN and run a local eNodeB instance to form a local LTE network. Given that it has a radio that operates in the LTE bands, in theory you might be able to build srsRAN for a phone and run the necessary base station software (eNodeB and EPC) on a phone to form an &quot;ad hoc&quot; network. It wouldn&#x27;t be truly ad hoc in that the network would still have a base station, just that it would be running on phone hardware. srsRAN wouldn&#x27;t be running as an application, but would be replacing the firmware in the phone&#x27;s…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1802.09262/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.NIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18570364urn:hackerpapers:mention:1802.09262:18570364Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:48:14 GMT<p>If you wonder about real world use cases for open source LTE stacks like srsLTE: They’re great for deploying small ad-hoc cells e.g. in vehicular and rescue scenarios like in our work from earlier this year: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09262</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1802.09262/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.NI