IEEE 802.11g tolerance to narrowband jamming

Author

Pietikäinen, Kari ; Silvennoinen, Aki ; Hall, Michael ; Häggman, Sven-Gustav

Author_Institution

Commun. Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Espoo

fYear

2005

fDate

17-20 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

1825

Abstract

In this paper, the operation of an IEEE 802.11g wireless local area network (WLAN) system under the influence of narrowband interference is investigated. The IEEE 802.11g WLAN is defined to operate in the 2.4 GHz license free frequency band. Three different WLAN interface cards with different transceiver chipsets is were evaluated in laboratory environment. The performance was measured in a packet error rate as a function of signal to jamming ratio. The results show that narrow-band interference has a significant impact on the performance of an OFDM based system. It is possible to deteriorate the connection even with relatively low interfering signal power levels for some of the vendor cards. The interfered subchannel choice has an influence on the effectiveness of the jamming

Keywords

OFDM modulation; jamming; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11g; WLAN system; interface cards; license free frequency band; narrowband interference; narrowband jamming; packet error rate; signal to jamming ratio; transceiver chipsets; wireless local area network system; Binary phase shift keying; Delay; Interference; Jamming; Laboratories; Military equipment; Narrowband; OFDM; Physical layer; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2005. MILCOM 2005. IEEE

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9393-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2005.1605938

Filename

1605938