New concepts and technologies for achieving highly reliable andhigh-capacity multimedia wireless communications systems

The rapid growth of multimedia wireless communications services forces the development of advanced digital wireless systems with high reliability and high speed as well as flexibility for varying traffic conditions. To achieve such advanced wireless systems. New system design concepts different from the conventional ones aiming at increasing system capacity for voice transmission would be required. Since multimedia wireless communications require high quality, high speed, and high flexibility as well as temporary and spatial control of traffic under severe fading environments, the so-called conventional system design concept will be insufficient. New system design concepts and techniques for achieving highly reliable and high-capacity multimedia wireless communications are discussed using both time division multiple access (TDMA) and code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. The demands for high-speed and high-reliability mobile, personal, and multimedia wireless communications services strongly require matching with the trunk network constructed by a broadband optical fiber system or wired system     

基于Au1200的无线车载多媒体终端硬件设计

介绍一种无线车载多媒体终端的硬件设计方案,该终端以Alchemy Au1200多媒体处理器为核心,将无线网络技术与多媒体技术相结合,具有音视频播放、远程监控管理、无线数据高速传输、红外遥控等功能,为车载多媒体设备向无线化、综合化过渡提供一种解决方案。经测试,该无线车载多媒体终端硬件运作良好,结果达到设计要求。     

Delay and synchronization control middleware to support real-timemultimedia services over wireless PCS networks

This paper presents a discussion of several middleware design issues related to the support of real-time multimedia communications over wireless personal communication services (PCS) networks. Specific interests are given to error recovery and synchronization mechanisms. A hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) scheme is employed for error control in the proposed system because it can efficiently adapt to nonstationary wireless channels and yield high throughput and reliability. In particular, delay and delay jitter control related to retransmissions in the error control module are addressed. An adaptive source rate control mechanism is used to handle the fluctuation of the effective channel data rate due to retransmissions. An adaptive synchronization scheme is developed to compensate for long-term delay variation caused by large-scale fading so that synchronization is preserved and end-to-end delay is kept low. Simulation results from the performance evaluation of the system are presented     

Network issues for wireless communications

This article specifically focuses on wireless personal communications, i.e., wireless access, that provides either terminal or personal mobility. In particular, we discuss some important issues in networking, traffic, and performance. Although within radio and networking aspects there are significant commonalities between traditional cellular mobile communications and wireless personal communications, there exist distinct differences due to radio propagation and fading effects, interference environment, smaller cell sizes, type and pattern of mobility, and call delivery. Indeed, with respect to networking issues, a large set of system choices, characteristics of traffic to be carried, and important parameters have to be considered. These include the problems involved in selecting an appropriate multiaccess technology to efficiently handle the required subscriber service profile across a multiplicity of systems to complete a call. To present a meaningful discussion of these issues, we address in some detail radio resource assignment, mobility management, call control, and traffic aspect, which have significant impact on the network performance     

SATELLITE-ENHANCED PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS EXPERIMENTS

Users of future generation wireless information services will have diverse needs for voice, data, and potentially even video communications in a wide variety of circumstances. For users in dense, inner-city areas, low power personal communications services (PCS) technology should be ideal. Vehicular-based users travelling at high speeds will need high-power cellular technology. For users in remote or inaccessible locations, or for applications that are broadcast over a wide geographic area, a satellite technology would be the best choice. Packet data networks provide an excellent solution for users requiring occasional small messages, whereas circuit switched networks provide more economical solutions for larger messages. To provide ubiquitous personal communications service, it is necessary to capitalize on the strength of each wireless technology and network to create one seamless internetwork including both current and future wired and wireless networks. As an initial step in exploring the opportunities afforded by the merging of satellite and terrestrial networks, Bellcore and JPL conducted several experiments. These experiments utilized Bellcore's experimental personal communications system (including several messaging applications with adaptations to wireless networks), NASA's advanced communications technology satellite (ACTS), JPL's ACTS mobile terminal, and various commercial data networks (such as the wireline Internet and the RAM wireless packet data network). Looking at loss of bits, packets and higher layer blocks (over the satellite-terrestrial internetworks with mobile and stationary users under various conditions) our initial results indicate that the communication channel can vary dramatically, even within a single network. We show that these conditions necessitate powerful and adaptive protocols if we are to achieve a seamless internetworking of satellite and terrestrial networks.     

Evolution of aeronautical communications for personal and multimedia services

The demand to make air travel more pleasant, secure, and productive for passengers is one of the winning factors for both airlines and the aircraft manufacturing industry for which aeronautical communications is one of the enablers. This article describes current trends in the area of aeronautical passenger communication toward personal and wireless in-cabin communications and multimedia data networks. Technological challenges are summarized as well as market potentials and regulatory issues.     

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-speed wireless subsystem with large capacity and acceptable quality-of-service (QoS) and (ii) to design a network architecture capable of supporting multimedia traffic and various kinds of user mobility. A time-hopping spread-spectrum wireless communication system called ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) radio is used to provide communications that are low power, high data rate, fade resistant, and relatively shadow free in a dense multipath environment. Receiver-signal processing of UWB radio is described, and performance of such communications systems, in terms of multiple-access capability, is estimated under ideal multiple-access channel conditions. A UWB-signal propagation experiment is performed using the bandwidth in excess of 1 GHz in a typical modern office building in order to characterize the UWB-signal propagation channel. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the UWB radio and its robustness in a dense multipath environment. A ATM network is used as the backbone network due to its high bandwidth, fast switching capability, flexibility, and well-developed infrastructure. To minimize the impact caused by user mobility on the system performance, a hierarchical network-control architecture is postulated. A wireless virtual circuit (WVC) concept is proposed to improve the transmission efficiency and simplify the network control in the wireless subsystem. The key advantage of this network architecture and WVC concept is that the handoff can be done locally most of the time, due to the localized behavior of PCS users     

Guest Editorial Cross-layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications

The 19 papers in this special issue focus on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications. The papers are organized into four sections: quality of service support for wireless networks; system architecture for multimedia over wireless networks; resource allocation in wireless multimedia communications, and multimedia coding and scheduling issues in wireless networks.     

An integrated CDMA code assignment model for voice and data traffic in wireless communications

Wireless personal communication requires a provision of integrated services of multimedia traffic, such as voice and data, over the radio link. The multiple access protocols of code-division multiple-access (CDMA) techniques have been widely investigated in the recent literature. This paper presents an innovative multiple access protocol for CDMA-based wireless communication systems by fully utilizing the characteristics of voice and data traffic. In other words, a voice terminal can reserve a spreading code to transmit packets in multiple talk spurts, while a data terminal can transmit packets by either using the unassigned codes or borrowing the codes from the voice terminals during their silent periods. We build mathematical models for voice and data subsystems, respectively. Two performance parameters, the average dropping probability for voice packets and the average transmission delay for data packets, are derived based on the equilibrium point analysis. The effects of the two performance parameters on the system performance are discussed by varying the code reservation intervals of the voice terminals.     

MIMO系统中STBC与STTC的性能分析

在下一代无线通信中,由于Internet和多媒体的综合应用,使得对可靠的高速数据传输业务的需求快速增长.多输入多输出(MIMO)信道模型在收发端采用了多天线阵列方式,通过空时编码技术实现了一定的空间和时间分集,在大大增加了系统容量,提高频谱利用率的同时改善了传输可靠性.文中对空时格码和空时分组码进行了基本的理论分析,并在此基础上应用到不同天线阵列的MIMO系统中,对系统的误码率和误帧率进行了仿真分析.     

Measurement of electrical properties of semi-insulating GaAs single crystals

Semi-insulating GaAs is becoming a more and more important material for the coming multimedia era in the region of communications, such as cellular phones, PHS, wireless LAN, satellite communications, digital ICs for workstations and personal computers.     

基于M-Power500的无线语音传输系统设计与实现

无线通信技术发展到今天,通信产品已经可以承载包括语音在内如数据、图像、动画以及多媒体等的其他业务,但语音通信仍然是最基本、最主要的通信方式。本文以MSP430F149单片机为控制核心,射频模块选用工作在2.4 GHz频段的M-Power500,语音编解码芯片则选用CMX639来搭建一针对短距离通信的、全双工、低功耗的无线语音传输系统。经过测试,该系统在空旷的环境下,通信距离约200 m,该设计实现了点对点无线对讲功能的预期目标。     

实时多模式无线视频传输原型系统的实现

给出了一种新颖的无线视频传输原型系统。其设计特点是,无线终端以高性能多媒体DSP作为实时视频压缩编码和系统控制的核心,接口板集成了多种现有的无线网络接口,通过软件控制,系统不仅可以工作在单个网络模式,也可在多种网络模式下自动选择合适的传输方式,提供最佳的视频传输质量。详细描述了系统的组成结构,无线终端的软硬件设计和控制策略。实际测试结果表明,该系统在GPRS/WLAN和CDMA/WLAN的网络组合测试环境下,均能在各种网络模式之间正确切换,图像质量令人满意。     

On the performance of a higher order alphabet size in CDMA

Due to the desire for the next generation of wireless communications systems to be able to support higher data rate, multimedia, traffic, it is of interest to determine if the use of a higher order alphabet size, in conjunction with code division multiple access (CDMA) signaling, will allow enhanced performance. We compare the performance of an asynchronous CDMA system when a 16-QAM alphabet is used with that of a CDMA system employing QPSK as the modulation format     

基于英飞凌方案的无线通信终端设计

介绍了一种基于嵌入式技术的无线通信终端。通过对各种解决方案和无线通信技术的研究比较认证，综合考虑性能、设计难度、成本等多个方面，确定英飞凌的解决方案。由于GSM移动通信网络已经发展得相当完善与成熟，而且技术成熟度、成本和质量上都有优势。故采用GSM作为接入网络。本终端接入具有投资省、周期短、效益高的优势。     

WiMAX应用潜力分析

文章分析了WiMAX在固定宽带无线接入场合和便携、移动通信场合的应用前景.文章认为:在固定宽带无线通信中,WiMAX会广泛应用于家庭用户、IP语音用户、传输承载用户和集团客户,为他们提供宽带无线接入;在便携、移动通信中,IEEE802.16即将集成到笔记本电脑和个人数字助理(PDA)等便携式电子设备中,实现在城域网范围内的可移动的宽带无线数据服务;用户需求加上WiMAX设备的批量上市及终端成本的下降,WiMAX的应用潜力巨大,市场将呈几何级增长.     

个人通信的现状及发展动态

本文首先给出了个人通信的基本概念及其组成，接着讨论了无线个人通信的现状及向个人通信的过渡策略，提出了灵活的开放式空中接口协议，最后给出了个人通信的发展动态。     

A Novel Multimedia Streaming Scheme for N-Screen Services in Wireless USB Networks

Ultra wideband (UWB) technology has emerged as a solution for the wireless interface between medical sensors and a personal server in future telemedicine systems. Wireless universal serial bus (USB) is the USB technology merged with UWB technology. Wireless USB can be applied to wireless personal area network applications as well as personal area network applications like wired USB. In case of n-screen service applications, data traffics must broadcast to the adjacent devices However, the current wireless USB is designed to support the communication through the point-to-point connection between the host and the device only. This policy increases delay and energy consumption of wireless host and devices significantly. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel multimedia streaming scheme for n-screen service in wireless USB networks. The simulation results show that proposed protocol can enhance the throughput and delay performance and improve energy efficiency by minimizing the multimedia data delivery process.     

基于M—Power500的无线语音传输系统设计与实现

无线通信技术发展到今天,通信产品已经可以承载包括语音在内如数据、图像、动画以及多媒体等的其他业务,但语音通信仍然是最基本、最主要的通信方式。本文以MSP430F149单片机为控制核心,射频模块选用工作在2．4GHz频段的M-Power500,语音编解码芯片则选用CMX639来搭建一针对短距离通信的、全双工、低功耗的无线语音传输系统。经过测试,该系统在空旷的环境下,通信距离约200m,该设计实现了点对点无线对讲功能的预期目标。