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HomeRF is a wireless networking specification for home devices to be connected to each other. It was developed in 1998 by the HomeRF Working Group, a consortium of mobile wireless companies that included Siemens, Motorola, Philips and more than 100 other companies. The group was disbanded in January 2003 after Wi-Fi 802.11b networks became accessible to home users and Microsoft began including support for Bluetooth, a standard the HomeRF competed with, in its Windows operating systems. As a result HomeRF has fallen into obsolescence. Thus, HomeRF became obsolete and there is currently no group developing the standard further. The archive of the HomeRF Working Group is maintained by Palo Wireless. HomeRF used frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) in the 2.4 GHz frequency band and could achieve a maximum of 10 Mbit/s throughput; its nodes can travel within a 50 meter range of an access point while remaining connected to the personal area network (PAN). HomeRF allowed both traditional telephone signals and data signals to be exchanged over the same wireless network. Therefore, in HomeRF, cordless telephones and laptops, for example, could share the same bandwidth in the same home or office. Available HomeRF LANs supported 1.6 Mbit/s, relatively slow compared to second generation 802.11 LANs which support 11 Mbit/s. 802.11n standard will reach 100 Mbit/s at least. Currently, there are several standards and working groups focused on wireless networking technology in radio frequency (RF). Standards include popular IEE 802.11, 802.16, and Bluetooth.
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HomeRF is a localized wireless technology optimized for the home environment. Its primary use is to provide data networking and dial tones between devices such as PC's, cordless phones, Web Tablets, and a broadband cable or DSL modem.
It uses Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP) as the underlying protocol to carry both voice and data traffic and to interoperate with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the Internet; it operates in the 2400MHz band and uses a digital frequency hopping spread spectrum radio.
The SWAP technology was derived from extensions of existing cordless telephone (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone or DECT) and wireless LAN technology to enable a new class of home cordless services. It supports both a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) service to provide delivery of interactive voice and other time-critical services, and a CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance) service for delivery of high-speed packet data..
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HomeRF is a localized wireless technology optimized for the home environment. Its primary use is to provide data networking and dial tones between devices such as PC's, cordless phones, Web Tablets, and a broadband cable or DSL modem. It uses Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP) as the underlying protocol to carry both voice and data traffic and to interoperate with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and the Internet; it operates in the 2400MHz band and uses a digital frequency hopping spread spectrum radio. The SWAP technology was derived from extensions of existing cordless telephone (Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone or DECT) and wireless LAN technology to enable a new class of home cordless services. It supports both a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) service to provide delivery of interactive voice and other time-critical services, and a CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance) service for delivery of high-speed packet data.
