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CHAPTER SIX 6. Conclusion Wireless communications have been available for more than ten years. Today, 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMax are the most popular and widely discussed standards. Telecommunication industries hope that 3G can bring them new fortune, because 3G has improved enough to support e-mail and small data download. Therefore telecommunication industries want to occupy more of the market share of wireless Internet access by using 3G technology. But compared to Wi-Fi and WiMax, it is still too slow. Moreover, with the new coming Wi-Fi standard, IEEE 802.11n, WLAN becomes more powerful than before and can overcome many past limitations, such as coverage, stability and speed. It is slowly catching up with the capacities of wired networks. A Wired network’s advantage is its reliability, but its biggest disadvantage is path design. In a city, to wire a line to a house or a building is easy; however in remote or rural areas it is a huge issue. Thus WiMax is emerging as a possible solution. Parameters Table 6-1 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMax Overall Comparison Standard 3G Wi-Fi WiMax Coverage (a single tower) 2 (< 1 km) 3 1 (1 ~ 5 km) Data Rate 3 (< 300 kbps) 1 (~ 25Mbps) 2 Throughput 3 2 1 Mobility and hand-off 1 3 (WiFly) 2 (WiBro) 1: Very good, 2: Good, 3: Bad Table 6-1 is a comprehensive result of Table 5-11 and 5-12. 3G, Wi-Fi and WiMax. They have individual and unique fundamental technologies, but their capacities are partially overlapped. 3G can be a way to access the Internet and Wi-Fi and WiMax can provide VoIP service as an alternative for the traditional phone-call. However in Table 6-1, it can be found that for Internet service, 3G is too slow for real-time service, such as downloading larger files or watching online-TV. For phone-call service, VoIP’s quality is not as good as 3G; it is because of the design issue. 3G is telecommunication technology and Wi-Fi and WiMax are Internet technologies. They were designed for different purposes. Even though these technologies are overlapped in the application field, it is impossible for them to replace each other at this point. The overlap can be treated simply as a backup. It is better to let a cell-phone just be a cell-phone. 98
WiFly used Wi-Fi to cover 60% of the city including all metropolitan areas. It takes 4200 APs to do it. If it is replaced by WiMax, it will not take that much. And for FSU campus, if WiMax is applied, just one or two base stations are enough to cover the whole campus. However, two towers are not enough to take care of the daily usage. Moreover, it is always difficult to receive a signal from the outside in a concrete building. Therefore it needs a bridge or a gateway to direct a signal into a building. Wi-Fi may have low coverage, but it can be fixed by using more APs in a hotspot. The advantage is that it can not only extend the coverage but also reduce the flow rate for each AP. To build a city-wide wireless network is going to be a trend and it is feasible, but if a network only uses Wi-Fi or WiMax, it would suffer cost, coverage, signal and mobility issues. The best way would be for them to be used in combination with each other. So far there is no single technology can feed all different needs. In local area Wi-Fi has strong capability and WiMax is designed as the extension of ADSL or cable. The combination of these two standards can form a most efficient wireless network. Therefore the future of the wireless technologies should be created with the cooperation and integration of these technologies. There is a new standard IEEE 802.11u is based on this idea. It tries to make Wi-Fi interwork with other different types of networks. [154] The IEEE 802.11u allows devices to interwork with external networks. For this purpose, interworking refers to MAC layer enhancements. It allows the higher layer functionality to provide the overall end to end solution. Instead of telling it what to do, the IEEE 802.11u only helps upper layers to establish an end to end connection with external networks. It provides a “virtual point of presence” for many different networks via a single AP. IEEE 802.11u assists the advertising and connection to remote service beyond the DS and provides information to the STA about the external network prior to association. In fact, the IEEE 802.11u is an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 standard. The final approval of IEEE 802.11u is expected to be September 2009. [154] the Figure 6-1 shows the possible implementation of the future network. 99
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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables…
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Abbreviation
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