PicoRadio Goals and Milestones

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PicoRadio Goals and Milestones

• Now - Oct 1999
• Target Specifications
• Definition of the application demo(s)
• Oct 1999 - Oct 2000
• HW SW Simulator
• RF Testbed
• Start looking at applications
• Design environment fixed
• HW - SW rendezvous

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PicoRadio Goals and Milestones

• Oct 2000 - Oct 2001
• Piconode Chip
• Handoff of Piconodes
• Oct 2001 - Oct 2002
• Chip Network Application

Geolocation and packaging over the three years
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PicoRadio Goals and Milestones

• Multiple nodes (5,10,100) and an end-to-end
  application
• Ad-hoc network
• Node-to-node link
• RF testbed (over the air protocol test)
• Specification framework
• Evaluation criteria
• Geolocation
• Contractual obligations
• HW and SW testbeds is one entity
• Universal radio as a Piconode Base
• Inter-network compatibility