WLCp1-10: ASIC Implementation of Beamforming and SDMA for WiFi Metropolitan-Area Deployment

Author

Tweg, Ruby ; Alpert, Ruvi ; Leizerovich, Hanan ; Steiner, Avi ; Levitan, Evgeny ; Offir-Arad, Einat ; Guy, Alex Bar ; Zickel, B. ; Aviram, Aviv ; Frieman, Amit ; Wax, Mati

Author_Institution

Wavion Ltd., Yoqneam

fYear

2006

fDate

Nov. 27 2006-Dec. 1 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper presents an ASIC hardware architecture of a multi-antenna access point (AP), compliant with 802.11a/b/g standard and designed for outdoor metropolitan-area deployment. The AP has a six-antenna array and its PHY layer implements single-user maximum ratio combining (MRC) and transmit beamforming (BF), as well as downlink multi-user fourfold spatial division multiple-access (SDMA). The clients use standard WiFi 802.11a/b/g networks interface cards (NICs).

Keywords

antenna arrays; application specific integrated circuits; array signal processing; metropolitan area networks; space division multiple access; wireless LAN; ASIC hardware architecture; PHY layer; WiFi 802.11a/b/g network interface cards; downlink multiuser fourfold SDMA; multiantenna access point; outdoor metropolitan-area deployment; single-user maximum ratio combining; six-antenna array; spatial division multiple access; transmit beamforming; Application specific integrated circuits; Array signal processing; Downlink; Frequency domain analysis; MIMO; Multiaccess communication; Network interfaces; Physical layer; Signal processing; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2006. GLOBECOM '06. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1930-529X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0356-1

Electronic_ISBN

1930-529X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.903

Filename

4151533