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Monday, 24 September 2012

Why Are Today's Wireless Speakers More Reliable Than Older Types?

By Michelle Jaeger


Cordless loudspeakers are among the many devices which operate in one of several license-free ISM frequency bands. Such frequency bands are restricted to a number of frequency spaces at 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz and also 5.8 GHz. Because the quantity of wireless products which function within those frequency bands has been expanding continuously, these bands have become ever more crowded to a degree where gadgets result in apparent deterioration to the operation of other devices. I will reveal one of several methods which modern cordless speakers use in an effort to endure other cordless products as well as to decrease the impact on other systems.

Adaptive frequency hopping is a method that delivers a large degree of robustness against interference for wireless speaker types. It works by checking every one of the channels inside the working frequency band. After that it determines which of the accessible channels are used by different cord-less gadgets.

All frequency channels which are occupied are flagged as filled. From the other free frequency channels, a hop set is defined that includes a selection of the free frequency channels. The transmitter will cycle through all of the frequency channels of the hop set during the sound broadcast. The hop set needs to be conveyed to each receiver so that both transmitter as well as receiver are constantly operating on the same frequency channel.

When a second cordless product starts taking up one frequency channel that is one of the active channels, the hop set has to be modified. For this kind of event, the transmitter will keep scanning all of the frequency channels on a constant schedule and maintains a record of clear frequency channels. When an active frequency channel becomes filled, the transmitter instantly eliminates that frequency channel from the active hop set and picks one of the free frequency channels to become part of the new hop set. Using a record of backup channels enables the hop set to be adapted immediately. This alteration in the hop set frequency channel is disclosed to each receiver. This mechanism not only has the capacity to put up with interference by keeping away from occupied channels but also lessens its impact on other transmitters given that it is going to avoid sending on occupied channels.

On top of the adaptive frequency hopping scheme, modern-day cord-less audio transmitters incorporate further techniques in order to enhance their quality of service (QoS). One example of these methods is data buffering. Data buffering is built to deal with loss or destruction of packets due to inadequate reception or perhaps multipath fading. The transmitter adds a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to each and every packet and keeps a particular quantity of packets inside a memory buffer. When a packet has been damaged or misplaced, the receiver will transmit a request to the transmitter for retransmission of the lost or damaged packet. For that reason, the receiver must be prepared to broadcast data back to the transmitter. In the instance of several cord-less receivers, the method should have a sufficient amount of time slots so that every receiver can request packets from the transmitter. Because of the limited quantity of time slots for the back channel, all of these wireless speakers possess a restriction for how many cord-less speakers can operate from a single transmitter.




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