A performance evaluation of 60 GHz MIMO systems for IEEE 802.11ad WPANs

Author

Zhu, Xiaoyi ; Doufexi, Angela ; Kocak, Taskin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

950

Lastpage

954

Abstract

The IEEE 802.11ad task group has published its first draft to cope with the characteristics in 60 GHz millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless communications. In this paper, three different 2×2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques are considered to enhance the performance of 60 GHz wireless personal networks (WPANs). Packet Error Rate (PER) and link throughput performance are simulated under different channel conditions. In addition, the system throughput over operation range is presented in the paper. Results show that significant enhancements in both coverage and capacity can be achieved by employing space-time block codes (STBC), spatial multiplexing (SM) and three different configurations of beamforming.

Keywords

MIMO communication; performance evaluation; personal area networks; space division multiplexing; space-time block codes; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11ad WPAN; MIMO systems; SM; STBC; frequency 60 GHz; millimeter-wave wireless communications; multiple-input multiple-output techniques; packet error rate; performance evaluation; space-time block codes; spatial multiplexing; wireless personal networks; Array signal processing; Gain; MIMO; OFDM; Signal to noise ratio; Throughput; Wireless personal area networks; 60 GHz; IEEE 802.11ad; MIMO; OFDM; WPAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2011 IEEE 22nd International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1346-0

Electronic_ISBN

pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2011.6140109

Filename

6140109