Impulsive noise modelling and prediction of its impact on the performance of WLAN receiver

Author

Bhatti, Shahzad A. ; Qingshan Shan ; Glover, Ian A. ; Atkinson, Robert ; Portugues, Illiana E. ; Moore, Philip J. ; Rutherford, Richard

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

24-28 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1680

Lastpage

1684

Abstract

As part of a larger project to assess the risk associated with the deployment of wireless equipment in electricity substations the BER performance of IEEE 802.11b and IEEE 802.11a in the presence of impulsive noise has been investigated. Middleton class A noise model is used to simulate impulsive noise environment and Simulink is used to simulate the WLAN physical layer. The observed degradation in performance is compared with that due to additive white Gaussian noise.

Keywords

AWGN; error statistics; impulse noise; prediction theory; radio receivers; substations; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11a BER performance; IEEE 802.11b BER performance; Middleton class A noise model; WLAN receiver performance degradation; additive white Gaussian noise; electricity substation; impulsive noise modelling; impulsive noise prediction; wireless equipment deployment; Bit error rate; Mathematical model; Noise; Partial discharges; Probability density function; Receivers; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing Conference, 2009 17th European

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Print_ISBN

978-161-7388-76-7

Type

conf

Filename

7077847