Written by: Jamshid Khun-Jush, Göran Malmgren, Peter Schramm and Johan Torsner

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The aim of several standardization efforts, including GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS, is to meet the requirements being put on wireless data communication. These standards are for wide-area wireless data services with full mobility up to 2 Mbit/s. In addition, standards are being developed in Europe, Japan, and the US for wireless local area network multimedia communication in the 5 GHz band. HIPERLAN/2, which is being specified by the ETSI BRAN project, will provide data rates of up to 54 Mbit/s for short-range (up to 150 m) communications in indoor and outdoor environments. Almost total harmonization was achieved between the standardization bodies in Europe (ETSI) and Japan (ARIB) when the core parts of the specification were finalized in 1999. In this article, the authors present an overview of the HIPERLAN/2 standard and results of link and system performance.

[First published in Ericsson Review no. 02, 2000]