Wireless Enablers

This work area aims to provide significant impetus in specific areas of wireless technology required to support enriched services.

Wireless is today recognised as a key enabler of future consumer products, with potential applications ranging from high bit-rate video conferencing and movie viewing to simple ‘house keeping’ tasks in domestic appliances. Furthermore, in the next 5 to 10 years wireless technology is expected to witness further phenomenal growth not least because of the foreseen interworking of Broadcast and Personal Communications.

To support this trend, significant technological advances will be required to ensure that wireless devices can provide appropriate transport mechanisms for the new applications that the interworking of mobile and broadcast industries will offer the end user.

The aims of the Wireless Enablers work area are:

• To develop technologies to support interworking of networks

• Efficient and effective use of spectrum for intra-PAN communications

• Enhanced operation of data delivery mechanisms (performance and mobility)

• Reduced complexity processing

Initial consideration has identified the following needs:

• Waveforms and processing for PANs to support new services

• Efficient radio resource allocation for opportunistic communications

• Multi-mode terminal to concurrently support multiple data delivery mechanisms

• Reduced complexity terminal (common processing)

• Allow increased mobility of systems (DVB)

• Enhancements to standards to improve capability

• Support co-existence of devices and standards

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