Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Emerging Commercial Mobile Wireless Technology and Standards

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:19:58 -0500

Contents
Preface
Figures and Tables
Summary
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Addendum

1. Introduction

1.1 Purpose and Scope of the Study
1.2 Taxonomies of Wireless Communications Networks
1.3 Circuit-switched Networks and Packet-switched Networks

2. Performance Measures and Design Tradeoffs
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Criteria for Comparing Mobile Wireless Systems
2.3 Capacity and Spectral Efficiency Issues
2.4 Key Design Tradeoffs
2.5 Interoperability Issues

3. Alternative Architectures for Future Military Mobile Networks
3.1 Rapidly-deployable Cellular Networks
3.2 Mobile Mesh Networks
3.3 Fully Mobile Hierarchical Ground Networks
3.4 Airborne Relay Concepts

4. Commercial Wireless Technology: Products, Standards, and Services
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Components and Subsystems
4.3 Waveforms and Signal Processing
4.4 Middle-layer Protocols: Next Generation IP Protocols
4.5 Commercial Wireless Products
4.6 Commercial Wireless Services
4.7 Government and DoD: To What Extent Can They Influence the Commercial World?

5. The Channel Modeling Problem
6. Recommendations for 6.1/6.2 Funding

6.1 The Problem of Duplicative Research
6.2 Batteries for Portable Electronics: An Area Where Funding Should Be Reduced
or Eliminated
6.3 Recommended Funding Areas and Topics

7. Conclusions

7.1 Applicability of Commercial Technology, Products, and Services
7.2 Two Key Findings of This Study

Appendix
A. Brief Overview of Tactical Radio Communications
B. A Brief Review of Multiaccess Communications
C. Types of Channel Models
D. Derivation of the Spectral Efficiency Form of Shannon's Capacity Formula

http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR960/index.html

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