FPGA Implementation of Isotropic and Nonisotropic Fading Channels

Author

Alimohammad, Amirhossein ; Fard, Saeed Fouladi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

60

Issue

11

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov. 2013

Firstpage

796

Lastpage

800

Abstract

A realistic fading channel simulator (FCS) is a key component for the development and faithful performance evaluation of wireless communication systems. This brief presents an efficient implementation of an FCS on a single field-programmable gate array. The FCS utilizes a configurable filter processor along with a multistage interpolator for a compact implementation. The FCS can be parameterized to accurately reproduce the statistical properties of both isotropic and nonisotropic scattering scenarios.

Keywords

fading channels; field programmable gate arrays; statistical analysis; FCS; FPGA implementation; configurable filter processor; fading channel simulator; isotropic fading channels; multistage interpolator; nonisotropic fading channels; single field-programmable gate array; statistical properties; wireless communication systems; Attenuation; Fading; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Interpolation; Receivers; Scattering; Fading channel simulation; field-programmable gate array (FPGA); isotropic scattering; nonisotropic scattering;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1549-7747

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSII.2013.2281768

Filename

6612701