Thursday, September 13, 2012

Why Are Latest Wireless Speakers More Robust Than Earlier Designs?

By Michelle Jaeger


Cordless loudspeakers are some of the countless gadgets which work in one of the license-free ISM frequency bands. Such frequency bands are limited to a few frequency spaces at 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz as well as 5.8 GHz. Since the number of cord-less gadgets which operate within these frequency bands has been rising steadily, these bands have gotten ever more congested to a degree where gadgets bring about recognizable degradation to the operation of similar devices. I am about to show one of the techniques that modern-day wireless loudspeakers use in order to endure similar wireless devices as well as to lessen the impact on other devices.

Adaptive frequency hopping is a method that delivers a great level of robustness against interference for ipod speakers. It functions by scanning all of the channels inside the working frequency band. After that it decides which of the available channels are used by different cord-less products.

From all unoccupied channels, several frequency channels are picked out and assembled into a hop set. The transmitter is going to cycle through each of the frequency channels of the hop set in the course of the audio transmission. The cord-less receiver likewise switches to the following frequency channel so that the transmitter as well as receiver are at all times transmitting and receiving on the identical frequency channel. In order for the transmitter and receiver to be in sync, both transmitter and receiver communicate the hop set with each other.

Whenever a second cordless product begins taking up one frequency channel which is one of the active frequency channels, the hop set must be modified. For this sort of event, the transmitter continues scanning each of the channels on a constant basis and maintains a listing of clear channels. When an active frequency channel becomes occupied, the transmitter immediately purges that channel from the active hop set and selects one of the several available frequency channels to become part of the fresh hop set. Possessing a list of backup frequency channels enables the hop set to be modified right away and thereby this strategy works very well in preventing interference and also in reducing broadcasting at busy frequency channels.

Data buffering is one other technique to enhance the quality of service of cordless real-time audio broadcast. Data buffering is able to compensate for packets that are impaired or dropped. Packets are frequently dropped as a result of bad receipt, interference or multipath fading. Audio information is broken down into packets in order to easier be able to coordinate the data as well as restore lost or broken packets. The transmitter adds a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to every single packet and retains a specific amount of packets in a memory buffer. This enables the receiver to test whether or not the packets it obtained have any kind of errors. In case of a missing or damaged packets, the cordless receiver will send a demand to the transmitter that allows the transmitter to resend the packet that was not correctly received. Due to this, the receiver must be prepared to transmit data to the transmitter. In case of several cord-less receivers, the standard protocol should have a sufficient amount of time slots to ensure that each receiver is able to request packets from the transmitter. Due to the set amount of time slots for the back channel, all of these wireless speakers have a restriction for how many cord-less speakers are able to work from one transmitter.




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