MAC and baseband hardware platforms for RF-MIMO WLAN

Author

Stamenkovic, Z. ; Tittelbach-Helmrich, K. ; Krstic, M. ; Ibanez, J. ; Elvira, V. ; Santamaria, I.

Author_Institution

Syst. Dept., IHP GmbH, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

33

Abstract

The paper describes hardware solutions for the IEEE 802.11 MAC (Medium Access Control) layer and IEEE 802.11a digital baseband in an RF-MIMO WLAN transceiver that performs the signal combining in the analogue domain. Architecture and implementation details of the MAC processor including a hardware accelerator and a 16-bit MAC-PHY interface are presented. The proposed hardware solution is tested and verified using a PHY link emulator. Architecture, design, implementation, and test of a reconfigurable digital baseband processor are described too. Description includes the baseband algorithms (the main blocks being MIMO channel estimation and Tx-Rx analog beamforming), their FPGA-based implementation, baseband printed-circuit-board, and real-time tests.

Keywords

MIMO communication; access protocols; radio transceivers; wireless LAN; FPGA-based implementation; IEEE 802.11 MAC layer; MAC processor; MAC-PHY interface; PHY link emulator; RF-MIMO WLAN transceiver; baseband printed-circuit-board; digital baseband processor; hardware accelerator; hardware platform; real-time test; word length 16 bit; Baseband; Channel estimation; Computer architecture; Hardware; MIMO; Radio frequency; Training; Baseband; MAC; MIMO; processor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems for Communications (ECCSC), 2010 5th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-400-8

Type

conf

Filename

5733849