Introduction To Wireless Communication Systems
Introduction To Wireless Communication Systems
Introduction To Wireless Communication Systems
Communication Systems
• Difficulties
– Communication medium: Free space
• Noisy and unpredictable channel
• Broadcast channel, more user ->less BW per user
– Higher equipment cost
– Usually regulated spectrum and limited BW
• Techno-politic
– Need backbone systems in order to function properly
Wireless Services
Satelite
Outdoor Fixed
Indoor (WLAN)
Outdoor Mobile
Market penetration
Figure 1.1 The growth of mobile telephony as compared with other popular inventions of the 20th
century.
Figure 2.1 Growth of cellular telephone subscribers throughout the world.
Figure 2.2 Worldwide subscriber base as a function of cellular technology in late 2001.
Paging system
Cordless phone system
Cellular system
Figure 2.3 Various upgrade paths for 2G technologies.
Figure 2.4 Example of the emerging applications and markets for broadband services.
(Courtesy of Harris Corporation, ©1999, all rights reserved.)
Figure 2.5 Allocation of broadband wireless spectrum throughout the world. (Courtesy of Ray W.
Nettleton and reproduced by permission of Formus Communications.)
Figure 2.7 A wireless Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) using Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM) distribution.
Figure 2.8 Measured received power levels over a 605 m 38 GHz fixed wireless link in clear sky, rain,
and hail [from [Xu00], ©IEEE].
Figure 2.9 Measured received power during rain storm at 38 GHz [from [Xu00], ©IEEE].
Figure 2.11 Photographs of popular 802.11b WLAN equipment. Access points and a client card are
shown on left, and PCMCIA Client card is shown on right. (Courtesy of Cisco Systems, Inc.)
Figure 2.13 A predicted coverage plot for three access points in a modern large lecture hall.
(Courtesy of Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., ©2000, all rights reserved.)
Figure 2.15 A typical neighborhood where high speed license free WLAN service from the street
might be contemplated [Dur98b].
Figure 2.16 Measured values of path loss using a street-mounted lamp-post transmitter
at 5.8 GHz, for various types of customer premise antenna [from [Dur98], ©IEEE].
Figure 2.17 Example of a Personal Area Network (PAN) as provided by the Bluetooth standard.