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Project DARWIN is working towards the specification and demonstration of a flexible broadband WLAN radio access system based on an IP network platform. In a sense, DARWIN can be considered as an evolution of IEEE 802.11 and HIPERLAN/2. This paper presents the main innovative ideas behind this project, that can be summarized as: a flexible network architecture providing extended range ad-hoc and infrastructure modes of operation, enhanced air interface (low-density parity check (LDPC) codes, adaptive modulation, smart antennas combined with space-time block codes), enhanced wireless link and data link control functions, and an enhanced security architecture.
This work has been supported in part by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain, and FEDER (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional), under grant TIC2001-0287.
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- Medium Access Control
- Medium Access Control Protocol
- Packet Error Rate
- Adaptive Modulation
- Layer Enhancement
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DARWIN TR WG1.1 V1.0. Physical (PHY) layer (2002)
DARWIN TR WG2.1 V1.0. DARWIN MAC layer specification (2003)
DARWIN TR WG3.1 V1.0. DARWIN security services (2003)
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Femenias, G., Ferrer, J.L., Carrasco, L. (2003). DARWIN: Demonstrator for an Adaptive and Reconfigurable Wireless IP Network. In: Conti, M., Giordano, S., Gregori, E., Olariu, S. (eds) Personal Wireless Communications. PWC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2775. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39867-7_17
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