PicoRadio Resources:

• The Project Proposal to DARPA ( 5.25.99) gives a good overview of a network of PicoNodes.
• Pico Radio Update (2/25/00) - (ppt) (pdf)
• An introduction to the PicoRadio idea (Dec 99)
• Evaluation of radio systems available today

Other PicoRadio-Like Research

• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Mobile Ad-Hoc Networking Page
• USC SCADDs Deborah Estrin's Group http://netweb.usc.edu
• CMU Monarch, David Johnson's Group http://www.monarch.cs.cmu.edu/
• UCSB Wireless Research Group http://beta.ece.ucsb.edu/wireless/wireless.html
• Cornell Wireless Network Lab http://www.ee.cornell.edu/~haas/wnl.html
• UCB, Smart Dust Chris Pister's Group http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust/
• U-AMPS and LEACH under professor Chandrakasan at MIT http://www-mtl.mit.edu/research/icsystems/uamps/
  http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~wendi/leach/leach.html
• MIT Media Lab, active networks/social insects http://nelson.www.media.mit.edu/people/nelson/research/routes/ (summary)
• Packet Radio Bibliography: http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Fbiblio.html

802.11:

The original ISO standard can be accessed locally at BWRC on \\hitz\designs\picoradio

• Lucents Wavelan: http://www.wavelan.com
• BWRC Wavlan Page
• Proxim RangeLan: www.proxim.com
• Linux Wireless LAN Howto and a good overview of the technology in W-LANs

Local Positioning:

• Aetherwire, an impulse radio (Ultra Wide Band) positioning system
  Aetherwire Executive Summary
  Aetherwire Tech Report 1995
  Aetherwire UWB research directions
  Aetherwire UWB tutorial
• Pinpoint makes smart tag for in building locating http://www.pinpointco.com/
• A white paper published in last years IEEE Spectrum: http://www.pinpointco.com/_private/whitepaper/rfid.html
• Not very relevant, but interesting http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/idexp98.html
• WiData makes firefly, another tag system: http://www.widata.com/

• You might also want to read the IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1998, Vol. 36, No. 4 available in the BWRC library

Global Positioning System GPS and GLONASS:

• Sam's GPS resource
• US Coast Guard Navigation Center
• GPS World
• Institute of Navigation
• Sirf Technology Inc.
• Trimble Navagation
• Trimble's GPS tutorial. (Very intuitive and not too long!!!)
• Ashtech - GPS for surveying and a very good knowledge and link base (GPS and GLONASS)
• µ-blox AG - smallest gps receiver
• Benefon - GSM/GPS integrated mobile phone using a µ-blox GPS-MS1 receiver
• Another tutorial on GPS
• IBM Poughkeepsie GIS information

UWB/Impulse Radio

• UltRa Lab Online Guide to Impulse Radio Resources

 Short-Range Integrated Radio's 

• Infineon Short-Range RF Chip
• Bluetooth
• RF Monolithics

Wearables & Ubiquitous Computing:

• A fashion show for wearables on this years Internet World
• An interesting article about research done by Philips, NL on wireless personal communicators
• A cool mobile cup Mediacup with IrDA to the outside

Other Useful Links:

• IBM Intellectual Property Network - great patents from all over the world
• Junichi Nishimoto's Wireless Links (more links to Wireless Projects)
• Junichi Nishimoto's  Helpful  Paper List (for wireless lans's and low power design).

PC-Enhanced Toys (PET) Conference (Restricted Access )

• Presentations include info on HomeRF-Lite, BlueTooth, USB 2.0, Motor-free motion, Radio design consdierations in the home, Antennas, and a Regulatory overview for RF

Last Update: 09/27/05 02:33:18 PM
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