Comment RTFM (Score 4, Interesting) 79
The goal is to "engineer software-based radios that transmit data faster than a competitor using identical hardware".
The goal isn't to develop fancy new hardware, or to use an overwhelming amount of power. The goal is to develop fancy new software.
With frequency-hopping and time-hopping techniques, if you can intelligently adapt to the local interference, and transmit in the time and frequency gaps where the interference doesn't occur, then you can transmit more data for the same amount of power. That's the goal.