Overview and performance of HIPERLAN type 2 - A standard for broadband wireless communications

At present, standards for broadband wireless multimedia communications in the 5 GHz band are being developed in Europe as well as in the U.S. and Japan. HIPERLAN type 2 (H/2) is being specified by the ETSI project BRAN; the core parts of the specification where finalised in the end of 1999. Almost total harmonisation has been achieved between me standardization bodies in Europe and Japan, ETSI and ARIB, respectively. In this paper, an overview of the H/2 standard is presented together with exemplary link and system performance results.