基于超宽带信道的无线通用串行总线测试与分析

无线通用串行总线系统被视为下一代无线个人局域网通信的关键技术之一,并且被基于多频带正交频分复用技术的超宽带公共无线电平台进行标准化.文中对无线通用串行总线系统在超宽带通信信道中进行性能测试,其中使用了4个超宽带信道模型,每个模型使用100个现实通信信道.实验表明,无线通用串行总线系统在室内多径传输环境下能实现低速200 Mb/s 10 m和高速480 Mb/s 4 m的传输性能,达到了高速无线个人局域网技术的要求.     

A Cooperative MAC Protocol for QoS Enhancement in Wireless USB Networks

Wireless USB (WUSB) is the USB technology merged with WiMedia PHY/MAC based on success of wired USB, and it can be applied to various mobile applications such as laptop, cellular phone, etc. Also, WUSB can provide the better user convenience than wired USB applications as well as be applied to the legacy USB application, since it provides high speed connection between host and devices for the compatibility with USB 2.0 specification and removes the cable among devices using the USB protocol. However the current WUSB protocol can’t prevent the QoS degradation occurred by mobile nodes with low data rate. This problem causes the critical problems in QoS provisioning to isochronous streams and mobile applications. Therefore, we propose a new cooperative MAC protocol for WUSB network with virtual MIMO (multi input multi output) link. Based on instantaneous channel state information among WUSB devices, our proposed protocol can intelligently select the transmission path with higher data rate between WUSB host and WUSB device as well as between WUSB device and WUSB device. Thus our proposed protocol can provide advanced QoS with minimum delay for real-time multimedia services.     

Wireless USB Cluster Tree based on Distributed Reservation Protocol for Mobility Support

Wireless USB (WUSB) is the USB technology merged with WiMedia PHY /MAC. WUSB can be applied to wireless personal area network applications as well as PAN applications like wired USB. However, due to mobility of WUSB devices in multi-hop environment, DRP (distributed reservation protocol) reservation conflicts happen frequently among WUSB devices with three-hop distance. To solve this problem in large scale WUSB networks, we propose a new DRP reservation scheme using dual role devices and a new Operation Info bits for three-hop mobility support. It is shown by simulation and numerical results that throughputs of WUSB devices at three-hop range hidden DRP reservation conflicts are largely increased.     

The ultra wideband WiMedia standard [Standards in a Nutshell]

WiMedia is a radio platform standard that enables shortrange, high-speed wireless connectivity using ultra wideband (UWB) multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) technology. It currently enables rates of up to 480 Mb/s in the physical layer and provides an architecture that supports multiple applications via various protocol adaptation layers. As a result, the WiMedia standard has been adopted by the USB Implementers Forum as the Wireless Universal Serial Bus (WUSB) standard and by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group for the next generation Bluetooth 3.0 standard for next generation consumer electronic applications. WiMedia also defines an adaptation layer to use WiMedia for Wireless Internet protocol (IP) known as WiMedia Network and is being considered in other applications such as IEEE 1394 (Wireless Firewire). This article briefly describes the WiMedia standard-the architecture, the technologies deployed in the standard, the applications enabled by it- and compares WiMedia to existing wireless local area network (WLAN) and wireless personal area network (WPAN) standards.     

IEEE 802.15.4: a developing standard for low-power low-costwireless personal area networks

A low-rate wireless personal area network, or LR-WPAN, is a network designed for low-cost very-low-power short-range wireless communications. Until now, the main focus in the wireless industry has been on communications. Until now, the main focus in the wireless industry has been on communication with higher data throughput, leaving out a set of applications requiring simple wireless connectivity with relaxed throughput and latency requirements. LR-WPANs will connect devices that previously have not been networked and allow applications that cannot use current wireless specifications, including applications in fields such as industrial, agricultural, vehicular, residential, medical sensors and actuators. TaskGroup 4 of the IEEE 802.14 Wireless personal Area Network working group is currently working to define a wireless communication standard for LR-WPANs. This article discusses the technical considerations and system requirements necessary when implementing a low-cost low-power wireless personal area network and provides an overview of the unique applications such a technology will enable     

On the coexistence of power-controlled ultrawide-band systems with UMTS, GPS, DCS1800, and fixed wireless systems

Ultrawide bandwidth (UWB) wireless technology will play a key role in short-range wireless connectivity supporting very high bit rates availability, low power consumption, and location capabilities. UWB can be conveniently deployed in the design of wireless local and personal area networks, providing advanced integrated multimedia services to nomadic users within hot-spot areas. The very large bandwidth required by the UWB signals cannot be exclusively allocated; thus, UWB band overlaps with the bands allocated to many other narrow-band systems. Therefore, the assessment of the interference caused by UWB devices on already-existing systems is of primary importance to ensure coexistence and, therefore, to guarantee acceptance of UWB technology worldwide. We study the coexistence issues between an UWB-based system and universal mobile telecommunication systems, global positioning systems, DCS1800, and fixed wireless access systems and point-to-point (PP) links terminals. UWB interference is evaluated accounting for the UWB signal model, a realistic UWB master/slave system architecture with power-controlled terminals. Furthermore, we analyze the dependence of the UWB interference from the UWB signal parameters and demonstrate through computer simulation that, in all practical cases, a UWB system can coexist with the selected victim terminals without causing any dangerous interference.     

Vertical handoffs in wireless overlay networks

No single wireless network technology simultaneously provides a low latency, high bandwidth, wide area data service to a large number of mobile users. Wireless Overlay Networks - a hierarchical structure of room-size, building-size, and wide area data networks - solve the problem of providing network connectivity to a large number of mobile users in an efficient and scalable way. The specific topology of cells and the wide variety of network technologies that comprise wireless overlay networks present new problems that have not been encountered in previous cellular handoff systems. We have implemented a vertical handoff system that allows users to roam between cells in wireless overlay networks. Our goal is to provide a user with the best possible connectivity for as long as possible with a minimum of disruption during handoff. Results of our initial implementation show that the handoff latency is bounded by the discovery time, the amount of time before the mobile host discovers that it has moved into or out of a new wireless overlay. This discovery time is measured in seconds: large enough to disrupt reliable transport protocols such as TCP and introduce significant disruptions in continuous multimedia transmission. To efficiently support applications that cannot tolerate these disruptions, we present enhancements to the basic scheme that significantly reduce the discovery time without assuming any knowledge about specific channel characteristics. For handoffs between room-size and building-size overlays, these enhancements lead to a best-case handoff latency of approximately 170 ms with a 1.5% overhead in terms of network resources. For handoffs between building-size and wide-area data networks, the best-case handoff latency is approximately 800 ms with a similarly low overhead. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

UWB无线视频传输系统的设计实现

UWB无线视频传输系统具有传输速率高、频谱利用率高等特点,能够很好地满足家庭等对带宽有较高需求的局域无线应用场合,因而倍受业界关注。提出一种UWB无线视频传输系统的设计实现方案,经过测试验证,该设计方案可行。通过该方案能够加速UWB技术的转换实现,特别适用于点对点高速传输的应用场合,可以为超宽带无线通信技术的标准化和产业化提供有力支撑。     

A Multi-channel Scheduling Scheme for Collision-Free High-Rate WPANs

Ultra wide-band (UWB) technologies are being feverishly developed in the technical community. UWB devices are expected to operate at rates of up to 0.5 Gb/s and communicate with other devices at a range of up to 10 m. Thus, UWB technologies are being developed as core technology for high-speed wireless personal area networks. The salient features of UWB networks—high-rate communications, low interference with other radio systems, and low power consumption—bring many benefits to users. Thus, they enable consumers to experience new applications such as wireless universal serial bus for connecting personal computers to their peripherals and the consumer–electronics in people’s living rooms. However, if multiple WiMedia logical link protocol Service Sets (WSSs) coexist in an adjacent area, various conflicts among independent WSSs can occur frequently. In order to solve this problem, we propose a multi-channel scheduling scheme (MCS) for the coexistence of adjacent WSSs. The proposed MCS scheme can scan new idle channel and detect its time offset where a WSS device can transmit a new beacon frame and data frames without conflicts. We also evaluate the performance of the proposed MCS scheme through various simulations in terms of several metrics. Simulation results demonstrate that the MCS scheme can minimize the possibility of data frame collisions by efficiently managing the multiple available channels in a hybrid manner combining proactive and reactive methods.     

空时编码在单天线UWB通信系统中的应用

超宽带(UWB)适用于基带多用户通信、战场无线通信和高数据率多媒体业务等通信系统,其数据传输速率高、功耗低、多径分辨能力强。但超宽带脉冲信号时域支撑区极窄,信道为密集多径,将空时编码技术引入超宽带通信系统,能够提升无线通信系统的信道容量与抗误比特率性能。在对UWB空时分组编码系统模型性能理论分析的基础上,对空时分组码在单天线UWB系统应用方案与UWB空时分层码方案进进行了简要介绍,利用Matlab对IEEEUWB信道模型进行仿真,提出了空时编码在UWB通讯技术中应用后提升短距高速率无线通信的性能的结论 。     

A Distributed Cooperative MAC Protocol for QoS Improvement and Mobility Support in WiMedia Networks

A Distributed Medium Access Control (D-MAC) protocol based on UWB for high-rate Wireless Personal Area Networks is specified by the WiMedia Alliance. D-MAC protocol is suitable for ubiquitous connection in home networks, military/medical applications due to its inexpensive cost, low power consumption, high data rate, and distributed approach. In contrast to IEEE 802.15.3, D-MAC makes all devices have the same functionality. And its networks are self-organized and provide devices with functions such as access to the medium, channel allocation to devices, data transmission, quality of service and synchronization in a distributed manner. D-MAC fundamentally removes the problems of the centralized MAC approach revealed at IEEE 802.15.3 MAC by adopting a distributed architecture. However, the current D-MAC can’t prevent QoS degradations, occurred by mobile nodes with low data rate due to bad channel status, which cause critical problems in QoS provisioning to isochronous streams and mobile applications. Therefore, we propose a distributed cooperative MAC protocol for multi-hop WiMedia networks using virtual MIMO links. Based on instantaneous Channel State Information among WiMedia devices, our proposed protocol can intelligently select the transmission path with higher data rate to provide advanced QoS with minimum delay for real-time multimedia streaming services.     

Wireless Mesh Technology and Network

Wireless Mesh Network (WMN) has been actively researched and developed as a new network technology to support broadband high- speed multimedia services . This paper discusses WMN technology and applications , and introduces the basic technologies , typical applications and current development of the WMN. With the future development of wireless distribution technology and network, wireless Mesh technology and network will become the key networking technology and architecture of wireless mobile communications , and will be widely used in various wireless networks with more important roles .     

无线多媒体传感器网络QoS保障问题

 作为一种全新的信息获取和处理技术,无线多媒体传感器网络在军事、工业、商业、环保中具有广阔的应用前景.无线多媒体传感器网络感知媒体丰富、数据量大,处理任务复杂等显著特点,使其QoS保障问题的研究极具挑战性.本文就此问题,总结了无线多媒体传感器网络的QoS需求及其当前所面临的技术挑战.从MAC层、网络层、传输层、应用层、交叉层以及中间件六个方面,着重描述了无线多媒体传感器网络QoS保障的国内外研究进展.最后,分析了当前亟待解决的问题以及未来的研究趋势.     

UWB技术在有线电视网中的应用

起宽带(Ultra Wideband，UWB)技术是近几年发展起来的一项十分有潜力的无线通信技术，以其高性能、低成本的无线数据通信能力，成为实现无线个人局域网的富有竞争力的技术之一。依据起宽带技术的主要特点，讨论了该技术在有线电视网中应用的优势及其实现，这不仅为解决有线电视网带宽“瓶颈”问题提供了有效的方案，也使UWB技术得到了更广泛的应用。     

Distributed quality of service routing protocol for multimedia traffic in WiMedia networks

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has emerged as a solution for the wireless interface between medical sensors and personal servers in future telemedicine systems. The WiMedia Alliance has specified a distributed medium access control protocol based on UWB for high-rate WPANs. In the cases of some applications, data traffic between the source device and destination device is transmitted via one or more intermediate links before it reaches the destination device. However, when all data frames do not transmit in the current DRP reservation block, a relay device cannot transmit the received data frame from the source device in the current DRP policy, until the next DRP duration reserved for forwarding to the destination device begins. This policy increases end-to-end latency between the source device and destination device significantly. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel reservation-based routing protocol to minimize the end-to-end delay between source and destination. The proposed routing protocol utilizes the number of medium access slots and hop-count to decide the optimal route between the source device and destination device. The simulation results show that the proposed protocol can enhance the throughput and delay performance and improve energy efficiency by minimizing the packet drop and collision.     

无线网状网在城轨交通中的应用

目前,802.11无线网络已在城市轨道交通系统中应用,如南京地铁二号线信号系统中的DCS（数据通讯系统）和PIS（车载乘客信息系统）。而WMN（无线网状网）是在802.11无线局域网成熟的技术基础上提出的,是一种新型的网络技术,支持业务数据的透明传输和宽带高速多媒体业务服务,符合Wi-Fi多媒体要求的QoS标准。通过本身特有的自我发现、自我组网、自我配置和自我维护等技术增强了无线网络的可靠性和易维护性。本文就无线Mesh网络技术和应用进行讨论,综述无线Mesh网络的基本技术、应用架构、产品选型的主要因素和物理品质,以及在城市轨道交通系统中的具体应用。     

Investigation and Modeling of the UWB On-Body Propagation Channel

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) are becoming an increasingly important part of the wireless communication system. In such a communication system various electronic devices carried by a person on his body can be connected. In this paper, we investigate the UWB body area propagation channel. The channel characterization is based on UWB on-body channel measurements. This paper describes the measurement campaign and the basic characteristics of the body area propagation channel extracted from measurement data.     

Wireless loops: What are they?

Several loop applications of wireless technology are aimed at reducing the cost of deploying communications services ranging from telephone to wideband video. In these applications, wireless links replace a portion of a wireline loop from a central location (a central office or cable headend) to a subscriber. The replacement of labor-intensive wireline technology by complex mass-produced integrated electronics in wireless transceivers is projected to reduce the overall cost of the resulting loop. These wireless loop applications attempt to provide existing communications services or small modifications to existing communications services. A different interpretation of a wireless loop makes use of low-power digital radio technology to provide the last thousand feet or so of a loop. Low-power low-complexity wireless loop technology in small base units can be integrated with network intelligence to provide the fixed-infrastructure network needed to support economical personal communications services (PCS) to small, lightweight, low-power personal voice and/or data communicators. Low-complexity communicators can provide many hours of “talk time” or data transmission time and perhaps several days of standby time from small batteries (≤ 1.5 oz). Because this application of wireless loop technology can reduce the inherent costs in several parts of a wireline loop, it has the potential to provide convenient widespread PCS at less costs than providing telephone services over conventional wireline loops. This low-power wireless loop application does not fit into any existing communications system paradigm. Wireless technology with tetherless access and wide-ranging mobility, e.g., the personal access communications system (PACS), does not fit the accumulated wisdom of the wireline telephony paradigm. It also does not fit the paradigm of existing cellular radio that has sparsely distributed expensive cell sites, and it is not targeted at fixed video services as is wireless cable. Because a significant change in thinking is required in addressing this new low-power low-complexity widespread wireless loop paradigm, its large economic advantages and service benefits have not yet been embraced by many of the existing communications providers, who appear to be more comfortable pursuing the better-known paradigms of video using wireless cable, or of cellular radio in the guise of high-tier PCS, or in the guise of rapid economical deployment of telephone services in developing nations. This paper discusses the inherent economic advantages and service benefits of low-power low-complexity wireless loop technology integrated with network intelligence aimed at providing economical low-tier PCS to everyone.     

信息设备资源共享协同服务标准的体系结构

信息设备资源共享协同服务标准（IGRS）是为了实现信息设备智能互联、资源共享、协同服务而制订的。IGRS采用了开放性的体系结构。遵从IGRS标准的设备能够与采用其他标准（如通用即插即用标准）的设备进行互操作。IGRS支持多种应用框架和特色应用。开发者可以通过IGRS媒体类应用框架结合多种媒体格式标准，如AVS、MPEG-2等，进行多媒体应用的开发。IGRS标准适用于在计算机、家用电器和通信等设备之间，在一定范围网络域内，通过有线或无线方式实现资源共享与协同服务。