Attaching base stations to LANs
Key elements are:
- high enough bandwidth to support multimedia demands
- Lucent Technologies Inc. - 10 Mbit/sec wireless LAN: http://www.wavelan.com/news/nw970422.htm
The details are in the patent by Israel Bar-David and Rajeev Krishnamoorthy
can be found at: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5623511
- digital radios (perhaps soft radios)
- Wideband receiver followed by DSP: http://www.aircom.com/southcom.html
- "Digital receivers: The new wave for signal analysis" by Rodger H. Hosking, RF Design, April 1997, pp. 32-44.
- provide multistandard, multiband communication with one radio
avoid the problems of the current cellular, cordless, ... market
- reconfigurable electronics
- support changing protocols
- support much of the protocol processing in hardware
- high integration (goal of MEDIA project)