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WiFiRe: Rural Area Broadband Access Using the WiFi PHY and a Multisector TDD MAC

Paul, Krishna and Varghese, Anitha and Iyer, Sridhar and Ramamurthi, Bhaskar and Kumar, Anurag (2007) WiFiRe: Rural Area Broadband Access Using the WiFi PHY and a Multisector TDD MAC. In: IEEE Communications Magazine, 45 (1). pp. 111-119.

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Abstract

The needs of Indian rural telecom, and the economics of currently available broadband access technologies, motivate a new system for rural broadband access, which we call WiFiRe (WiFi Rural Extension). The system leverages the widely available, and highly cost-reduced, WiFi chipsets. We, however, retain only the PHY from these chipsets and propose a singlechannel, multisector, TDD MAC using directional antennas. The proposed WiFiRe MAC is similar to the WiMAX MAC in several respects. In this article we motivate our approach, describe the system architecture and the MAC, analyse the spatial reuse, and then, using a simple scheduler, provide an assessment of the voice and data capacity of a WiFiRe system.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: IEEE Communications Magazine
Publisher: IEEE
Additional Information: Copyright 2006 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited: 25 Aug 2008
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2010 04:34
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/9689

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