A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF WINLAB
WINLAB maintains a broad "system"
focus in
order to identify important merging
wireless
opportunities, and supports a wide range of research activities
as
a result. Currently, WINLAB research is focused on new radio
and network architectures that will greatly expand the scope and
scale of wireless information, reduce
its cost, and create valuable new services.
Key elements of these architectures are super-high-speed and
increasingly "smart" radios that will exploit a variety
of
transmission technologies and access
protocols;
low-cost, integrated wireless sensors that
will
provide a new level of information about us and the world
around us; and decentralized protocols that will allow
these ad hoc and disparate elements to
organize themselves
into efficient, secure networks.