Summary

The main objectives of this project are as follows:

(1) To perform wide band channel measurements for developing a statistical channel model and a computer simulation for indoor wireless radio networks. The measurement sites inculde GM munafacturing plant in Pramingham, Mass; Infinet, Inc., in N. Andover, Mass; Prudential Center in Boston, Mass and WPI.

(2) To analyze the throughput and delay characteristic of ALOHA like multiple accessing techniques in fading multipath indoor enviroments to investigate other multiple access techniques such as CSMA and BTMA for indoor radio networks; and to compare distributed and centeral networks for this application.

(3) To compare analysis of the performance based on various channel modeling techniques; to determine the data rate limitation in indoor enviroment if adaptive equalization is adopted at the receiver; to investigate methods to improve the data rate for spread spectrum techniques in fading multipath indoor channels.

Principal Investigators

• Kaveh Pahlavan (CWINS)

Research Staff (CWINS)

• Tom Sexton, Steven Howard, Rajamani Ganesh, K. Zhang

Sponsor

NSF

Duration

Started June 1987