Diversity and automatic link transfer for a TDMA wireless access link

The paper describes diversity and automatic link transfer techniques which have been proposed for low-power digital wireless access to telephone networks using a TDMA architecture. Experimental results which quantify and demonstrate the performance of those techniques are presented. An experimental prototype radio link consistent with Bellcore´s Technical and Framework advisories on wireless access was used to obtain the performance results. The present work is targeted towards understanding the implications to local exchange networks of wireless technology alternatives that could provide access to those networks