FQPSK-2 high speed modem for infrared wireless LAN

Author

Pérez-Jiménez, Rafael ; Radadan, J.A. ; Ortega, David ; Melián, Victor M. ; Betancor, Manuel J.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Sefiales y Comunicaciones, Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

15-18 Oct 1996

Firstpage

973

Abstract

The design and evaluation of a modem prototype, based on FQPSK-2 modulation, is presented. Its main application is wireless infrared local area networks. The bit rate of this prototype is 2 Mb/s, but this magnitude can be taken up to 4.8 Mb/s just by substituting the quartz crystals on the oscillator and the A/D and D/A converters in the emitter low-pass filters of the receiver. The design is full-digital in order to allow its integration on a single chip. We have chosen FQPSK-2 modulation due to its high spectral efficiency (300% better than GMSK), robustness against jitter and the constant amplitude of its complex envelope. This permits the possibility of using non-linear amplifiers and reducing power consumption. This is the most important characteristic when the system is based on portable equipment, such as laptops. Finally, extensive experimental results are presented, and BER measurements of this prototype are also given

Keywords

VLSI; digital integrated circuits; jitter; modems; quadrature phase shift keying; wireless LAN; 2 Mbit/s; 4.8 Mbit/s; BER measurements; FQPSK-2 high speed modem; FQPSK-2 modulation; bit rate; complex envelope; emitter low-pass filters; full-digital design; high spectral efficiency; infrared wireless LAN; jitter; laptops; local area networks; nonlinear amplifiers; portable equipment; power consumption; Amplitude modulation; Bit rate; Crystals; Local area networks; Low pass filters; Modems; Oscillators; Prototypes; Robustness; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1996. PIMRC'96., Seventh IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3692-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1996.568426

Filename

568426