New Wireless Architecture Greatly Extends Coverage Area

New architecture for next-generation wireless systems for cellular phones proposed by SUNY Buffalo researchers could provide an efficient and flexible way to extend cellular coverage. The proposal plans to extend both outdoor and indoor coverage without building additional cellular phone towers. It also could make it much easier to complete a call using your cell phone, even when cell phone use is heaviest. Dubbed iCAR (integrated Cellular Ad Hoc Relay), the new system combines conventional cellular technology with Ad hoc Relay Station (ARS) technology. In this system cellular stations will relay or reroute calls from the congested cell to an adjacent one that is not congested.

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Mobileinfo Comments and Advisory: This may be worthy of investigation by wireless network infrastructure vendors.