ABSTRACT

The main objective of the Magic WAND (Wireless ATM Network Demonstrator) project 
was to develop a wireless ATM demonstrator system and evaluate it in real-life 
user environment. The output of the project comprised a Wireless ATM Access 
Network Demonstration system. The developed applications and the WAND hardware 
was evaluated in different user trials. In this paper we focus on the main 
results and conclusions of the wireless user trials organised in Tampere, Finland. 
The wireless trials were conducted with a mobile terminal within laboratory 
environment. The users were office workers not familiar with the WAND system. We 
present the performance evaluation of the WAND radio system recorded during the 
user trials. Additionally, we discuss multipath tolerance measurements performed 
using a hardware radio channel simulator. Finally we review the subjective user 
opinions of the Magic WAND system.