Attaching base stations to LANs
Key elements are:
- high enough bandwidth to support multimedia demands
- 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)