103 results about "Wireless metropolitan area network" patented technology

A method and system for interfacing to an electronic device is disclosed. At least one server may be used to manage an electronic device over a wireless metropolitan area network. Accordingly, the electronic device, which may be a mobile device, may be activated over-the-air. The electronic device may be minimally provisioned to allow initiation of the activation process. As part of activation, the servers can provision the electronic device and download applications that the electronic device needs for services that a user of the electronic device subscribed to. The services can then be enabled on the electronic device.

The present invention provides an antenna array structure which includes multiple array elements, and the antenna array structure is using for the application of the WLAN (wireless local area network) or WMAN (wireless metro area network.) Furthermore, the array elements of the present invention are phased arrays or attenuated arrays, and when configuration with different type of the array element is used, the corresponding BFN (beam forming network) can also be implemented in various possibilities. With all the configuration of the present invention, the manufacturers can have a stable array structure for their applications.

Method and apparatus for transporting Ethernet data packets via radio frames in a wireless metropolitan area network. A terminal includes a data packet receiver for receiving data packets for communication over a wireless link wherein not every data packet has a same length; a data packet formatting apparatus for formatting the data packets according to radio frames wherein the radio frames each have a same length and wherein the data packets are formatted into the radio frames such that boundaries for the data packets are not necessarily aligned with boundaries for the radio frames; and a wireless transceiver for communicating the radio frames over the wireless link. The packets can be Fast Ethernet packets. The terminal does not convert the Ethernet data packets into a telephony communication protocol or into an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) protocol prior to communication of the radio frames over the wireless link. The terminal can include a data packet synchronizer for synchronizing the data packets to a clock signal associated with the radio frames. The data packets can be time-division multiplexed into the radio frames. According to another aspect, a method of transporting Ethernet data packets via radio frames includes steps of receiving Ethernet data packets wherein each data packet includes a preamble and a start-of-frame delimiter, stripping off the preamble and start-of-frame delimiter, formatting the packet data according to radio frames, including appending a synch field to the packet data, and appending a length field to the packet data.

The present invention provides an antenna array structure which includes multiple array elements, and the antenna array structure is using for the application of the WLAN (wireless local area network) or WMAN (wireless metro area network.) Furthermore, the array elements of the present invention are phased arrays or attenuated arrays, and when configuration with different type of the array element is used, the corresponding BFN (beam forming network) can also be implemented in various possibilities. With all the configuration of the present invention, the manufacturers can have a stable array structure for their applications.

The invention provides an access authentication method in ID based wireless multi-hop network, which is applicable to the security application protocol when WAPI frame method (TePA, an access control method based on triplet peer authentication) is applied on specific network including wireless local area network, wireless metropolitan area network and wireless personal area networks. The methods comprises the following steps that: a non-controlled port and a controlled port are defined; a coordinator transmits a beacon frame; a terminal equipment sends a command for connection request; the coordination conducts authentication with the terminal equipment; after the authentication is successful, the coordinator opens the controlled port and sends a connection response command; the terminal equipments receive the connection response commands and opens the controlled ports so as to get access to the network. The method of the invention solves the technical problem that the prior wireless multi-hop network has safety hidden danger in access authentication method and ensures the communication security between the terminal equipment and the coordinator.

A method and apparatus for facilitating a fast handoff for subscribers in a Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) by establishing a hard association with a first entity by sending a hard association request to the first entity and receiving a hard association response in response to the hard association request and establishing a pending association with a second entity by sending a pending association request to a second entity and receiving a pending association response from the second entity. In one embodiment, the pending association with the second entity may be converted to a hard association.