Abstract: Recent years have seen a phenomenal growth in demand for residential broadband. With the advent of small form-factor high performance integrated SoCs (see, for example, the TI) and short area broadband wireless technologies (Wi-Fi and the upcoming WiMAX/LTE), the broadband access point or Base Station Router (BSR) is becoming a mass-market item. Coupled with the ongoing interest in 'femto-cells', it is likely that over the next five years, residential “access point” base-stations will to a significant percentage of the communication requirements. The cBSR can be defined as a base station which has limited capabilities it terms of user data throughput, number of subscribers and is typically based on off-the-shelf hardware. It is more suitable for small scale deployments like wall mount or SOHO networks.This document discusses the generic framework of the BSR, with special reference to the high-speed data-path and architecture for realization of the same. |