Wireless ATM networks

new architecture elements and

functionality supporting mobility

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Service scenarios

• wireless LAN networks with dynamically

modified structure
• broadband wireless access networks
• wireless point-to-point links

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Possible R&D directions

Bit rate
ATM
100 Mbps

10 Mbps WATM

1 Mbps
UMTS
100 kbps Technocal boundary

10 kbps
GSM+WAP

Cell radius
& mobility

• GSM System + • ATM System +

– multimedia support – radio access
– QoS support – mobility

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New requirements for WATM
• Wireless access (ETSI BRAN)
• shared medium
• relatively high error ratios
• relatively low bit rates
• Mobility (ATM Forum)
• Location Management (LOC)
• Handover Control (HOC) without loosing
connections and with QoS persistence

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Wireless ATM System Radio
microcell 1

ATM Host/Server „W” UNI

WATM Terminal
Wired ATM
UNI
NNI/UNI
„M” NNI/
Radio
ATM Switch UNI
microcell 2
ATM Switch + Standard
Mobility Ext „W” UNI ATM API

• New components WATM Terminal

– ATM switch with “M” UNI/NNI interface

– ATM base station with “M” UNI/NNI and “W” UNI interfaces
– ATM mobile terminal with “W” UNI interface

+ mobility support software

+ radio ports

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WATM Radio Access
User Plane Control Plane
• PHY Layer (+ Mobility Ext.)

Upper Layers
• MAC Layer
VCs Sig Control
• LLC Layer LLC „W” CTRL

Access Layers
WATM Radio MAC

Multiplexed data
PHY

Radio signal

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WATM PHY Layer
• Cell radius:
– 50-500 m (microcell or picocell environment)
• Band:
– 5GHz Unlicensed NNI band (USA)
– "Hiperlan" band (Europe)
– in future 20/30 or 60GHz (limited mobility)
• Bit rate:
– ~25Mb/s (2-4Mb/s sustained, 5-10Mb/s peek VCs)
• Modulation:
– QPSK/GMSK or OFDM
• Access Method:
– TDMA/TDD

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WATM MAC Layer
• Reservation based MAC protocols
– Piggybacking
– Assigned reservation slots
– Contention slots
• Pooling based MAC protocols
• Generic frame structure (TDMA/TDD)
BSMT MTiBS

Header Data Reservation period

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WATM LLC Layer
• Error detection with retransmission (SREJ
ARQ)
• Forward error correction
1800
TCP Thru

1600
1400
1200 with LLC
1000 without LLC
800
600
400
200
Avail UBR BW (kbps)
0
1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000

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WATM Mobility Support

• Location Management (LOC)

• Handover Management (HOC)

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WATM Location Management
• Extended addressing for MTs
– home address (HA)
– foreign address (FA)

• Possible solutions
• FA of the MT is maintained by its home ATM switch
• Designated LOC servers maintaining HAs to FAs
mapping exists in the system

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WATM Handover Control
• Possible initiators
– MT vs. BS
– old-BS vs. new-BS
• Possible strategies
– New connection strategy
– Path extension strategy
– Connection Tree Strategy

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WATM Status
• Projects
– Race II
– ACTS (Advanced Communications Technologies and Services)
• Magic WAND
• AWACS (ATM Wireless Access Communication System)
• Samba (System for Advanced Multimedia Broadband Applications)
• MEDIAN
• Standards (ETSI)
– HIPERLAN Type 2 – wireless local access
– HIPERACCESS – wireless local loop
– HIPERLINK – wireless point-to-point link

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THANK YOU

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