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WiFiRe: Rural area broadband access using the WiFi PHY and a multisector TDD MAC

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Title WiFiRe: Rural area broadband access using the WiFi PHY and a multisector TDD MAC
 
Creator PAUL, K
VARGHESE, A
IYER, S
RAMAMURTHI, B
KUMAR, A
 
Description 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 single-channel, 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.
 
Publisher IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
 
Date 2011-08-01T19:59:50Z
2011-12-26T12:53:28Z
2011-12-27T05:39:34Z
2011-08-01T19:59:50Z
2011-12-26T12:53:28Z
2011-12-27T05:39:34Z
2007
 
Type Article
 
Identifier IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, 45(1), 111-119
0163-6804
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.2007.284546
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/8531
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/8531
 
Language en