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Wireless Project Update
Dewayne Hendricks
Dandin Group
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Magic and Technology
• Clarke’s Third Law
“Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic”
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Agenda
• NSF Initiatives
• FCC Perspective
• Wireless Project Update
• Questions
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NSF Past/Current Initiatives
• Sovereign nations on the Net
– Mongolia in ‘96
• Wireless Technology R&D and
Deployment
– HPWREN
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Kennard Statement
• “All of the new technologies -- mobile
phones, faxed, wireless computers -- are
consuming spectrum faster than we can make
it available, and we are in danger of a
spectrum drought. We need to find spectrum
to build the web of wireless applications that
will continue to fuel our economic growth.
The demand for spectrum is simply
outstripping supply.”
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Kennard Proposals
• Establish as a goal that spectrum become like
any other commodity that flows fluidly in the
marketplace.
• Look to technology to provide better
spectrum management tools, for example,
ultrawideband and software-defined radios.
• Promote greater spectrum efficiency
• Changes in relationship to tribal governments
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Regulatory Recap
• Regulatory issues are the biggest
problem in the way of a paradigm shift
for wireless!
• More technology available than we
know what to do with!
• Need to find a place where wireless
regulatory issues are absent!!
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AN-MSI Tribal Wireless
Project
• Continue NSF initiative
• Help to clearly establish tribal
sovereignty over radio spectrum
• Provide a testbed for new and
innovative wireless technologies
• Establish a framework for new FCC
spectrum management paradigm
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New Wireless Network Model
• Wireless Multiservices IP Network
– Scalable, fully meshed network
• Use of wideband wireless devices
– Spread Spectrum and Ultra-Wideband
• Support for new Internet appliances
– New PDA’s (such as Palm Pilot)
– Sony’s Playstation II
• Goal of CPE cost of about $300
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Services to be offered
• VoIP for telephony
• Internet data
• Video (two MPEG-2 streams)
• Deliver 30 Mbps symmetric to each
home
• Wireless Mobility
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New Network Details
• Three level hierarchy
• Mesh routing at each level
• Every device in network routes
• Residential Gateway unit at each home
– Provides support for mobility
– Gateway for multimedia services
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AN-MSI Wireless Project
• Four awards to date
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Ft. Berthold
Turtle Mountain
Ft. Peck
Standing Rock
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Next Steps
• Start deployment
• Continue to evaluate rest of applicants
• Develop legal strategy
– Larry Lessig and Stanford Law Clinic
• Continue to push the wireless
technology forward through open
systems approach
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Questions?
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