Summary: Wireless ATM: Limits, Challenges, and Proposals
Ender Ayanoglu, Kai Y. Eng, Mark J. Karol
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies
101 Crawfords Corner Road
Holmdel, NJ 07733­3030
ABSTRACT
Recently, there has been an increased interest in the topic of ``wireless ATM.'' The subject matter
raises interest due to the potential combination of two of the hottest topics in communications of
the mid­90's, but at the same time raises a natural question as to its viability, and sometimes even
to its desirability. In this paper, we survey potential applications of Wireless ATM and we describe
what is usually meant by Wireless ATM, why it may make sense, and some of the proposals to
build systems based on it. The emphasis in this paper is on the physical layer, the data link layer,
and the access layer. We also present general observations on each of these layers, and present
some research solutions to these problems. We address mobility issues and interoperability with
the existing networks. Finally, we list some of the proposals to build Wireless ATM systems from
the literature.
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Source: Ayanoglu, Ender - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Irvine

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