ATM-based TH-SSMA network for multimedia PCS.

Personal communications services (PCS) promise to provide a variety of information exchanges among users with any type of mobility, at any time, in any place, through any available device. To achieve this ambitious goal, two of the major challenges in the system design are: (i) to provide a high-spe...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 17, 5 (1999).
Main Author:	Win, M.Z
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	ATM network. ATM-based TH-SSMA network. QoS. UWB-signal propagation experiment. Backbone network. Bandwidth. Dense multipath environment. Experimental results. Handoff. Hierarchical network-control architecture. High data rate. High-speed wireless subsystem. Large capacity. Low power communications. Multimedia PCS. Multimedia traffic. Multiple-access channel conditions. Office building. Personal communications services. Propagation channel. Quality-of-service. Receiver-signal processing. System design. Time-hopping spread-spectrum communication system. Transmission efficiency. Ultra-wide bandwidth radio. Wireless virtual circuit.