SWAN: a mobile multimedia wireless network

The SWAN (Seamless Wireless ATM Network) is an experimental indoor wireless network that instigates the combination of wireless access with multimedia networked computing in an indoor setting. It is based on room-sized pico-cells and mobile multimedia endpoints. It enables users carrying multimedia endpoints, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptops, and portable multimedia terminals, to seamlessly roam while accessing multimedia data resident in a backbone wired network. The network model of SWAN consists of base stations connected by a wired asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) backbone network, and wireless ATM last hops to the mobile hosts. SWAN is one of the first systems to realize the concept of a wireless and mobile ATM network. Mobile hosts as well as base stations are embedded with custom-designed ATM adapter cards called FAWN (Flexible Adapter for Wireless Networking). FAWN uses off-the-shelf 2.4 GHz industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band radios. After giving an overview of the SWAN network model, and discussing the challenges in making ATM wireless and mobile, the article describes the first phase implementation of SWAN hardware and software. This initial implementation provides connectivity over the wireless last hop. We have investigated both native-mode end-to-end ATM communication across the wired ATM backbone and wireless ATM links, and transmission control protocol (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) communication using Internet protocol (IP) over wireless ATM in the wireless link with IP forwarding and segmentation and reassemble modules at the base stations.

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