A Codesign Prototyping Framework for Wireless LAN Transceivers with Smart Antennas

Author

Roy, Sébastien ; Boudreault, Jean-Francois ; Dupont, Louis

fYear

2007

fDate

13-16 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

1008

Lastpage

1015

Abstract

OFDM Wireless LANs based on the IEEE 802.11 standard are complex systems in themselves. When smart antennas are used in such systems, both the MAC and the PHY layers must be redefined in order to achieve application-specific goals. As a result, the development of such systems can become impressively heavy. A complete development framework is presented here. It makes use of hardware/software codesign in order to implement all required layers to develop a wireless access point. The entire framework is targeted at an FPGA platform, providing full flexibility and processing power for the development of PHY layers.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; adaptive antenna arrays; field programmable gate arrays; hardware-software codesign; transceivers; wireless LAN; FPGA; IEEE 802.11 standard; MAC layers; OFDM wireless LAN transceivers; PHY layers; hardware-software codesign prototyping; smart antennas; wireless access point; Bandwidth; Channel estimation; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Physical layer; Programmable logic arrays; Prototypes; Radio frequency; Transceivers; Wireless LAN; Communication system software; Communication systems; Field programmable gate arrays; Integrated circuit design; Logic design; Programming environments; Signal design; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2007. ICCCN 2007. Proceedings of 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1251-8

Electronic_ISBN

1095-2055

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2007.4317950

Filename

4317950