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- From: ericj@hwcae.Honeywell.COM (Eric Jacobsen)
- Subject: Re: Radio dreams
- In-Reply-To: robertw@informix.com's message of 9 Sep 92 15: 07:29 GMT
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- References: <1992Sep9.150729.4381@informix.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:47:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.150729.4381@informix.com> robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
-
- OK, set loose your electronic imagination.
-
- SUPPOSE all transmitters used the SAME frequency, sending out packets of digitally
- encoded signals. The receiver would look for a packet addressed to it with a
- digital code, and only pay attention to that packet.
-
- Everyone would have to time-share the same airwaves, so the packets would have to
- be brief, and there would have to be assurances that if there were, say, 25 planes
- up, nobody got bumped.
-
- ... some stuff deleted ...
-
- This sort of thing does work, but adds a lot of complexity (interpret $$$$)
- to the systems, both in the airplane and in the xmitter. The other problem
- is that the channel access management (how to decide when you can transmit)
- is not trivial and signal traffic collisions do occur. How to do the access
- management is a current topic for networks, cellular systems, etc. Many
- of the current methods involve waiting some random length of time and trying
- again if a collision occurs. If another collision occurs, you wait again, etc.
-
- The problem comes along when you need your model to respond *really quickly*
- and can't tolerate the access delays. (I brought my T34 home in a body bag
- this weekend because I didn't have enough response time. In this case it
- was because the ground was too close to recover in time (my fault). How
- would you feel if it was because the radios wouldn't respond in time?)
-
- Another method, though is to use a spread spectrum technique where you don't
- really care (as much, anyway) about how much radios are interfering with
- each other. This also complicates ($$$$ again) the transmitter and receiver.
-
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