Physical layer engineering for indoor wireless systems in the twenty-first century

Deploying wireless systems so that they offer the best performance for all stakeholders (e.g. users, service providers and shareholders) is identified as a critical issue in advancing the wireless industry into the second decade of the twenty-first century. An historical perspective of the key issues is initially presented, from which a set of societal expectations of future wireless performance are derived. The engineering challenge is to meet these expectations, and this has motivated a programme of research being undertaken at the universities of Auckland and Kent. Suggestions are made as to how this research might be encapsulated in the form of a wireless Code of Practice to assist practitioners charged to provide high performance wireless functionality to users in built environments.