[1]The Network `cloud' provides a seamless connection between base transceivers and stationary processing sites. Peer transceivers could also be configured to directly exchange their sampled RF data, thereby implementing a distributed repeater which Steinbrecher has termed as a spectral wormhole.

[2][6] describes the hardware implementation of a CDMA scheme that uses low resolution samples.

[3]Conventional DSP software does this to a limited degree, e.g., in the implementation of tap filters. However, these buffers are orders of magnitude smaller than those we envisage.

[4]Albeit at a rate that lags improvement in the technology as a whole [9].

[5]Since the advent of digital computers, the trade-off between processing power, memory and effective channel capacity has been recognized [13].

[6]Network transmission latencies virtually ensure that wide area networked applications can be realized in this manner. The applications that are excluded are those that have a feedback path of short duration, i.e., the latency between sampling analog information and generating an analog response must be finer than can be achieved by virtual time systems. In present environments the excluded applications are those whose feedback paths are less than about 10 msec.

[7]National Instruments, 604 Bridge Point Parkway, Austin TX.