• DocumentCode
    3654324
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    5/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications Quality and Reliability (CQR), 2014 IEEE International Workshop Technical Committee on
  • ISSN
    2163-5595
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CQR.2014.7152637
  • Filename
    7152637