Combining Wi-Fi and Cellular Internet

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Combining Wi-Fi and Cellular Internet

• Panel Discussion
• Evolving Markets in Telecommunications
• UCSD CONNECT, San Diego Telecom Council and San
  Diego Venture Group
• San Diego, CA
• May 29 , 2002

Dr. Larry Smarr Director, California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information
Technologies Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
and Engineering Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
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Two New Cal-(IT)2 Buildings Ground Breaking for
UCSD This Friday!
Bioengineering

• Will Create Unique Lab Facilities
• Clean Rooms for Nanotech and BioMEMS
• Computer Arts Virtual Reality
• Wireless and Optical Networking
• Interdisciplinary Teams

UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Extend to Living Laboratories
Thanks to Members of SDTC for 200 Phone Call and
Faxes!
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Broadband Wireless Internet Infrastructure is
Emerging Today

• Wireless Internet Hot Spots
• IEEE 802.11 b,a
• Access Ports to Wired Internet
• Real Broadband--11 mbps Going to 54 mbps
• Security and Authentication can be Added
• Cellular Internet is Rolling Out
• CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
• South Korea SKT KTF See Fast Growth
• Verizon, Sprint Introduce This Summer
• WCDMA GPRS
• Japan NTT DoCoMo FOMA Launched Oct 2001

Samsung
The future is already here, its just not
evenly distributedWilliam Gibson, Author of
Neuromancer
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Using Students to Invent the Futureof Widespread
Use of Wireless Pocket PCs

• Year- Long Living Laboratory Experiment 2001-02
• Computer Science Engineering Undergraduates
• 500 Wireless-Enabled HP Pocket PCs at UC San
  Diego
• 50 Compaq Pocket PCs at UC Irvine
• Currently Using Wi-Fi Wireless Internet
• Experiments with Geo-location and Interactive Maps

UC Irvine
UC San Diego
Cal-(IT)2 Team Bill Griswold, Gabriele
Wienhausen, UCSD Rajesh Gupta, UCI
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Cellular Internet InfrastructureSupports More
Than Cell Phones

• UCSD Has Been Beta Test Site
• Qualcomms 1xEV Cellular Internet
• Optimized for Packet Data Services
• Uses a 1.25 MHz channel
• 2.4 Mbps Peak Forward Rate
• Part of the CDMA2000 Tech Family
• Can Be Used as Stand-Alone
• Chipsets in Development Support
• PacketVideos PVPlayer MPEG-4
• gpsOne Global Positioning System
• Bluetooth
• MP3
• MIDI
• BREW

Computer Vision and Robotics Research Lab Mohan
Trivedi, UCSD, Cal-(IT)2
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Internet Services Are Beginning to Make Money

• Combination Of
• Nice Color Screen Phones
• Reasonable Data Transport on 1x
• New Applications
• Good Content

Average Revenue Per User Up 57 Since Q1 2001
Source Roberto Padovani, Qualcomm
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UCSD Creates a Mobile BubbleIntegrating Wi-Fi
with 3G!

• First US Taste of 3G Cellular Internet
• UCSD Jacobs School Antenna
• First Beta Test Site
• Linking to 802.11 Mobile Bubble
• Tested on CyberShuttle
• Joint Project with Campus
• From Railway to Campus at 65 mph!

Rooftop Qualcomm 1xEV Access Point
www.calit2.net/news/2002/4-2-bbus.html
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Creating a Mobile BubbleWith a Briefcase
UCSD Students
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Cellular Internet and Wi-Fi WLANWill Co-Exist
Source SK Telecom
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Goal Smooth Handoff by Mobile Device As One
Moves from Local to Wide Area
Partnering with Ericsson
Ramesh Rao, Kameshwari Chebrolou UCSD-CWC,
Cal-(IT)2