S. Koutroubinas, A. Maniatopoulos, M. Iliopoulos and Th. Antonakopoulos:

V-NET: Design, Implementation and Demonstration of an Adapter Card for Wireless Local Area Networks

EMMSEC ’98, Bordeaux, France, September 1998.

Abstract: The key aspect of the revolution on the telecommunications is the ubiquitous access to information and services anywhere and at anytime. Wireless communications give a new meaning to the concept of ubiquitous access. Cellular service combined with the POTS network gives this capability to telephony. However, in packet networks there is still a long way to go. IEEE 802.11 was accepted as a standard last summer, and interoperability tests are planned only for the future. The business focus of DCT Hellas is on data communication systems including wireless, wireline and optical communications. Within the framework of OMI^†, DCT Hellas is developing a MAC controller based on the ARM core CPU, which is integrated with additional on-chip logic to provide the interfaces with the PCMCIA bus and an RF transceiver at the ISM band using Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum transmission. DCT Hellas is also developing the microcode to implement the IEEE 802.11 standard. The architecture of this system is presented in this paper.

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