Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) equipment: some practical design issues

Author

Bump, Gregory D. ; Rappaport, Theodore S.

Author_Institution

Res. & Dev. Center, Grayson Electron. Co., Blacksburg, VA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

29 Sep-2 Oct 1996

Firstpage

801

Abstract

Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) is a new wireless packet data communication system which was developed by a consortium of US cellular service providers to augment cellular voice communications. CDPD provides wireless packet data connectivity to mobile data communications customers. This paper presents an introduction to CDPD networks, various hardware interface challenges, and a software approach to implementing the (83,47) Reed-Solomon error correction code

Keywords

Reed-Solomon codes; cellular radio; data communication; land mobile radio; network interfaces; packet radio networks; voice communication; CDPD equipment; CDPD networks; Cellular Digital Packet Data; Reed-Solomon error correction code; US cellular service providers; cellular voice communications; hardware interface; mobile data communications customers; software; wireless packet data communication system; wireless packet data connectivity; Base stations; Cellular networks; Consumer electronics; Data communication; Hardware; Mobile communication; Physical layer; Protocols; Radio frequency; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications, 1996. Record., 1996 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3300-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1996.562686

Filename

562686