Packet Radio Integrated System Module (PRISM) - Design Document

Abstract

This paper describes the design of the Packet Radio Integrated System Module (PRISM): the purpose and motivations for designing the PRISM, the unique concepts developed for the PRISM, applicability of the PRISM concepts to other networks and significant decisions during development of the PRISM. The PRISM provides physical and electrical requirements to house and interconnect eight Low-cost Packet Radios (LPRs) and eight Network Interface Units (NIUs). PRISMs can be concatenated to create a large network of over 100 radios. The PRISM contains an RF switching subsystem, which allows the experimenter to configure the LPRs into various connectivities of strings, areas of full connectivity, grids of radios in a continuum of connectivity and 'mobile' connectivity as well as console switching to allow the experimenter to access any single console port of the NIUs and LPRs in the PRISM system. Automated laboratory testbed, RF switching, Modular network, Low-cost radio, Packet radio network.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA214723

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