Moving wireless local area networks (WLANs) to the 5-GHz band is very appealing because of the leap in data rates from 11 or 22 Mb/s to 54 Mb/s. But, making the leap to 5-GHz also means the use of ...

Spread spectrum modulation has been the basis for many proprietary and IEEE 802.11-based wireless LANs (WLANs). Through the use of frequency hopping and direct sequence, these WLANs provide data rates ...

Curtiss-Wright’s E-SOQPSK (Extensible SOQPSK) is a software-configurable, ultra-low-power Wi-Fi modulation scheme. Its waveforms offer some beneficial performance attributes for aeronautical telemetry ...

Broadband communications equipment is increasingly pushing the envelope of mixed-signal technology in terms of speed, distortion, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and cost. Many broadband wireless systems ...

In my column last month (“Get Ready for ATSC 3.0, But Don’t Ignore 1.0”), I compared ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 reception. While it is being rolled out, ATSC 3.0 is likely to require similar antennas to ...

We all know that it’s sometimes better to beg forgiveness than ask permission to do something, and we’ll venture a guess that more than a few of us have taken that advice to heart on occasion. But ...