Sirbu, Marvin, William Lehr, and Sharon Gillett (2006). Evolving
Wireless Access Technologies for Municipal Broadband. Government
Information Quarterly.
http://cfp.mit.edu/groups/broadband/docs/2006/Evolving_Wireless.pdf
Advances in wireless technology (including new digital encoding, signal
processing, routing, and antenna technologies) have expanded the range
of potential architectures, technologies, and radio frequencies (RF)
which are available for developing wireless broadband access
infrastructure. This paper gives an introduction to emerging trends in
wireless technology (Section II, p. 3), and how these trends are
impacting municipal broadband deployments (Section III, p. 20). In
particular, the paper discusses architectural and design choices for
wireless networking systems in terms of what this means for cost and
system performance. Examples are provided of how new wireless
technologies are being used by municipalities in a variety of contexts,
with regard to which wireless technologies currently available from
vendors.