Survey on Wireless and Mobile ATM Networks
Abstract
The phenomenal growth in cellular telephony over the past several
years has demonstrated the value people place on mobile voice
communications. The goal of next generation wireless systems is to
enable mobile users to access, manipulate and distribute multimedia
content anywhere anytime. New mobile and wireless services will include
Internet access to interactive multimedia, video conferencing and
imaging as well as traditional services such as voice, email and web
access. As the demand for mobile multimedia services grows, wireless
extensions to existing broadband and Internet technologies will be
required to support the seamless deliver of voice, video and data to
mobile terminals with high quality. In this context, the advent of
Wireless Asynchronous Transfer Mode (WATM) technology is intended to
provide a direct extension of the core ATM network and services. A
survey on wirless and mobile ATM networks is conducted in this paper.