A comparitive analysis of Army waveforms & commercial wireless protocols at the PHY/MAC layers

Author

Reddy, Ranga ; McKeon, Douglas

Author_Institution

US Army RDECOM CERDEC S&TCD, Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

18-21 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper will present a comparison of the basic resource definition in an OFDMA MAC/PHY layers for WiMAX and the TDMA/OFDM MAC/PHY. The majority of current radios in development for the US Army use TDMA/OFDM. This comparison will be conducted by defining and discussing the basic unit of system resource, e.g. the Â¿slotÂ¿. Following the protocol comparison, some simulation results comparing the performance of both systems will be provided.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; WiMax; access protocols; frequency division multiple access; military communication; time division multiple access; OFDMA PHY-MAC layers; TDMA; WiMAX; Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access; army waveforms; commercial wireless protocols; media access control; orthogonal frequency-division multiple access; time division multiple access; Costs; Hardware; Media Access Protocol; OFDM; Physical layer; Research and development; Software systems; Time division multiple access; WiMAX; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2009. MILCOM 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5238-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5239-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5379996

Filename

5379996