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air interface

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air interface

The specification for the radio transmission between base station and mobile units in a wireless network. It is the wireless counterpart of the physical layer 1 in the OSI model (see OSI model).

The air interface defines the frequency, channel bandwidth, modulation scheme and other attributes. For example, CDMA and TDMA are the air interfaces for the cellular networks, and 802.11 is the air interface for Wi-Fi networks. See CDMA, TDMA and 802.11.



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16, Air Interface for Fixed Broadband Wireless Access Systems.
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These include 3G air interface standards IMT-FT: DECT; IMT-SC: TDMA; IMT-DS: Wideband CDMA; IMT-MC: CDMA 2000; and IMT-TC: TD-CDMA.
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* Detection of lost and delayed messages from the air interface and RAN network with time stamped messages;
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