A trial of home applications over HIPERLAN Type 1

Wireless LANs are very promising technologies for home networking applications. New high speed standards which will make use of the 5 GHz band are under development or were adopted in Europe, US and in Japan. The ETSI HIPERLAN Type 1 standard was the first to be published and is prefiguring next generation wireless LAN. We describe our trial platform which is one of the very first to be based on HIPERLAN Type 1 prototypes. This platform allows one to experiment with a wide range of configurations and environments but was firstly configured to deliver multimedia home applications based on IP because it is a good way to assert the technology's efficiency for delivering both real-time and best effort applications from low to very high bit rates.