Simon's point is a good one. The European regulatory requirements are addressed in 802.11h, a new amendment to the 802.11 standard published earlier this month.
With the WRC'03 results on the future of the 5 GHz band, this requirement will be likely to spread to other areas, as well. The US national position to the WRC'03 was supportive of providing additional spectrum for unlicensed operation, provided transmit power control, dynamic channel selection, and RADAR detection/avoidance are required. -Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Barber Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:22 PM To: 'wireless list' Subject: RE: [BAWUG] Urban Wi-Fi Gridlock Predicted To Arrive in 2004 In europe there is a requirement that people only use as much transmit power as necessary, and that they choose an idle channel in the 11a bands if they detect other users. Simon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Pozar Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:53 PM To: wireless list Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Urban Wi-Fi Gridlock Predicted To Arrive in 2004 On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:15:30PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:06:28PM -0800, Tim Pozar wrote: > > I would love to see a new chunk of spectrum that would be set aside > > for only high speed data that has some level of automagic > > coordination built into the protocol. > > I thought the UNII stuff was supposed to do that? Nope. My paper (see: http://www.lns.com/papers/part15) documents a number of other users on 5.8GHz. Also the band does not require any coordination protocol. Tim -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 "Be who you are and say what you feel because the people who mind don't matter and the people who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
