Cyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems: Design Challenges  ◾  11

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using different devices including a laptop, cell phone, or other Internet-ready devices. To gain this

access, a CPS uses a terminal that can gain access through several ways. ese include a wire-

less local area access network (WLAN) and wireless wide area access network (WWAN). Even

though WLAN’s name has wireless in it, it also has the capability of being connected with wires.

e problem is that this can only be done for so many homes because the throughput eventu-

ally becomes so constrained. In most cases the WLAN coverage is not very big and the WWAN

sometimes exceeds 90% coverage. In order to create a CPS mobile network, a user must use het-

erogeneous multi ...