Title :
A MATLAB platform for characterizing MIMO-OFDM communications with software-defined radios
Author :
Ryan Measel;Donald J. Bucci;Christopher S. Lester;Kevin Wanuga;Richard Primerano;Kapil R. Dandekar;Moshe Kam
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
fDate :
5/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new MATLAB-based, wireless measurement platform using an existing software-defined radio architecture is presented. It augments IEEE 802.11g MIMO-OFDM physical layer schemes with new designs such as Maximal Ratio Combining, Alamouti coding, and Spatial Multiplexing. The platform provides a series of metrics, including channel capacity, Error Vector Magnitude (EVM), and Post-Processing Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PP-SNR) to characterize link and network performance. The software implementation and test protocol of the platform are presented with a validation study demonstrating its application.
Keywords :
"OFDM","Physical layer","Wireless communication","Training","Measurement","Signal to noise ratio","Receivers"
Conference_Titel :
Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR), 2014 IEEE International Workshop Technical Committee on
DOI :
10.1109/CQR.2014.7152637
