Impact of confined environments on WiMedia UWB systems

Author

Sipal, Vit ; Gelabert, Javier ; Stevens, Christopher ; Allen, Ben ; Edwards, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Sci., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

14-15 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper explores the performance of a commercial WiMedia Multi-Band OFDM Ultrawideband development kit in a confined environment. It confirms previous predictions that the forward error correction schemes of WiMedia systems might not be sufficient for confined environments with a high number of multipaths. A carefully designed environment is shown to be able to alleviate the issue and improve the performance by reducing the packet-error rates. Analysis of packet-error-rates obtained for various antenna orientations and polarisations enables us to propose design rules to assist deployment of WiMedia Multi-Band OFDM Ultrawideband wireless systems in confined environments.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; antennas; forward error correction; multimedia communication; ultra wideband communication; WiMedia UWB systems; WiMedia multiband OFDM ultrawideband wireless systems; antenna orientations; antenna polarisations; confined environments; forward error correction schemes; packet-error rate reduction; Antenna measurements; Conferences; Fading; OFDM; Ultra wideband antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Conference (LAPC), 2011 Loughborough

Conference_Location

Loughborough

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1014-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1015-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LAPC.2011.6114072

Filename

6114072