throwbox

English

Etymology

throw +‎ box

Noun

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.