Experimental Demonstration of Adaptive Distributed Transmission Scheme for Indoor Wireless Networks

Adaptive Distributed Transmission (ADT) is a novel scheme for transmission of data in a wireless network. ADT coordinates the transmissions of base stations in order to increase the overall throughput of the network. This gain is achieved through exploiting the space resource, by cooperatively compensating for the phase and amplitude effects of the scattering environment. Initial estimates expect throughput gains of almost four times that of traditional wireless networks. The dissertation describes in detail the first experimental demonstration of ADT in a small wireless network that can send data from base stations to mobile units in a changing environment, and establishes the feasibility of employing ADT to increase the capacity over larger networks.