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Chapter 4 described the design and selection of the short range communication air interfaces tailored to Personal Networks application. These air interfaces consist of a low data rate (LDR) FM-UWB system and a high data rate (HDR) MC-SS system. The present chapter focuses on the hardware and software design and implementation that was carried out to prove the aforementioned concepts and to assess the performance of these air interfaces, taking into account all the impairments coming from a real hardware implementation, as well as the impact of real usage conditions.
The LDR FM-UWB system has been derived into two platforms operating at 4 and 7.25 GHz respectively. Specific chipsets have been designed and implemented in order to show the low power potential the FM-UWB. These chips are described as well as other main features of the LDR system such as low power channel coding and IEEE 802.15.4 compliant MAC implementation.
The High Data Rate MC-SS system operates in the 5.2 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band and is implemented on top of a state of the art off-the-shelf chipset. As explained in Chap. 4, the MC-SS system is a very versatile air interface, providing modulation and coding flexibility. In the present chapter, a specific emphasis is drawn on the features that have been designed to achieve flexibility in hardware.
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Noguet, D. et al. (2010). Link Level Prototypes. In: Prasad, R. (eds) My personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET). Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3437-3_6
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