The millimeter (mm) wave band (above 20 GHz) appears to be suitable for wireless access to broadband services, e.g. up to 20 Mb/s data rate. The advantages of this particular band include the availability of sufficient bandwidth, sparse usage, small RF devices and favorable regulatory environment. Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) may be an attractive technique because of its ability to multiplex multimedia traffic and other appealing futures.

This work presents a study of an indoor wireless network supporting high speed traffic using CDMA access. The work aims at investigating the traffic handling capabilities of the network assuming the parameters of a mm wave channel. The results are obtained through the simulation of an indoor environment and the traffic capabilities of the wireless access to a broadband 155.5 MHz ATM-SONET networks. A distributed system architecture is employed, and its performance is measured in terms of call blocking and call dropping probabilities. The simulations evaluate the impact of the base station density, traffic load, average holding time and variable traffic sources.