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Implementation of WiFiRe and Rural WiMAX

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Overview Long range wireless for data and voice connectivity is being considered as viable and affordable solution for rural India since few years now. Numerous solutions were presented to bridge the digital divide; WiFiRe is one of them. This paper discuss about implementation of WiFiRe MAC done so far and its effectiveness. It proposes several improvements in design, development and strategy used to implement WiFiRe MAC. Plan for integration of 802.11b PHY is briefly described. The paper also present rural WiMAX, project at Intel Research where development of 802.16d based WiMAX devices is in progress. In rural WiMAX, the paper presents 5116 WiMAX chip architecture, co-relation with 802.16 standard and few enhancements.

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Publisher	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Wi-Fi (802.11), WiMAX (802.16)

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