RE: stds-80220-requirements: Definition of "air interface"

["Mansour, Nagi" <Nagi.Mansour@Nextel.com>]

Title: Next Conference call

Hi All,

The Air Interface any thing that has to do with the technology that carries the bits in the air from the BTS to the handset, e.g. OFDM.

Thanks

Nagi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-stds-80220-requirements@majordomo.ieee.org [mailto:owner-stds-80220-requirements@majordomo.ieee.org]On Behalf Of Gang Wu
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 2:33 PM
To: stds-80220-requirements@ieee.org
Subject: stds-80220-requirements: Definition of "air interface"

At least I found one from the web.

 

"In cellular telephone communications, the air interface is the radio-frequency portion of the circuit between the cellular phone set or wireless modem (usually portable or mobile) and the active base station."

 

from http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/gDefinition/0,294236,sid40_gci339211,00.html

 

Regards,

Gang Wu