Performance and Implementation Aspects of Wireless Indoor Communication Systems with Local Centralization
Stefan Pettersson · 2000
Wireless indoor multimedia communication has a bright future. The success of cellular telephony and the explosive development of Internet services will have a great impact on indoor communications. A variety of services must be offered in order to maintain the high interest in wireless communications; the mobility will be taken for granted. Future customers will demand to have Internet in their pockets and in their laptops wherever they are at a very low cost. One major drawback of today's indoor communication systems is that they are not designed to give the quality-of-service guarantees needed to support different applications. Future wireless indoor networks will very likely be implemented at places where the concentration of users is very high, like airports and downtown business centers. At these hot spots, the radio resources must be used efficiently. This will increase the system capacity and improve the capability of coexistence with other wireless networks located in a nearby ...