Australian activities in microwave links for wireless LANs

Author

Batechlor, R.A. ; Archer, J.W. ; Bird, T.S. ; Giugni, S. ; Kot, J.S. ; Nikolic, N. ; Ostry, D.I. ; Percival, T.M. ; Young, A.C.

Author_Institution

CSIRO Div. of Radiphys., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

1993

Firstpage

677

Abstract

A program centered at the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics in Australia aims to develop third-generation wireless systems with capacities on the order of 100 Mb/s in a cell. The authors discuss some of the issues relating to the design of millimeter-wave antennas and transceiver MMICs (monolithic microwave integrated circuits) for operation at frequencies near the 60-GHz ISM (industrial scientific, and medical) band. Components in this wavelength range have traditionally suffered from the high cost of labor-intensive manufacture, which has acted as a major impediment to commercial utilization. Successful implementation of this wireless local area network (LAN) program will require the development of multifunctional MMICs combined with sophisticated planar antennas in low-cost, easily assembled packages.<>

Keywords

MMIC; digital radio systems; local area networks; microwave antennas; microwave links; radiowave propagation; 100 Mbit/s; 60 GHz; Australian activities; CSIRO; local area network; microwave links; millimeter-wave antennas; monolithic microwave integrated circuits; multifunctional MMICs; planar antennas; transceiver MMICs; wireless LANs; Australia; MMICs; Manufacturing industries; Microwave antennas; Microwave integrated circuits; Millimeter wave integrated circuits; Monolithic integrated circuits; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Transceivers; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest, 1993., IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1209-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.1993.276998

Filename

276998