A MIMO-OFDM Testbed for Wireless Local Area Networks

Author

Fàbregas, Albert Guillen i ; Guillaud, Maxime ; Caire, Giuseppe ; Gosse, Karine ; Rouquette, Stéphanie ; Dias, Alexandre Ribeiro ; Bernardin, Philippe ; Miet, Xavier ; Conrat, Jean-Marc ; Toutain, Yann ; Peden, Alain ; Li, Zaiqing

Author_Institution

Inst. for Telecommun. Res., South Australia Univ., The Levels, SA

fYear

2005

fDate

Oct. 28 2005-Nov. 1 2005

Firstpage

82

Lastpage

86

Abstract

This paper describes the design steps and final implementation of a MIMO OFDM prototype platform developed to enhance the performance of wireless LAN standards such as HiperLAN/2 and 802.11, using multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas. We present the design methodology, including cross-validation of the Matlab, C++ and VHDL components, and the final demonstrator architecture. We highlight the increased measured performance of the MIMO testbed over the single-antenna system

Keywords

MIMO systems; OFDM modulation; antenna arrays; wireless LAN; MIMO-OFDM testbed; multiple receive antennas; multiple transmit antennas; single-antenna system; wireless local area networks; Baseband; Embedded computing; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Lakes; MIMO; OFDM modulation; Research and development; Testing; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signals, Systems and Computers, 2005. Conference Record of the Thirty-Ninth Asilomar Conference on

Conference_Location

Pacific Grove, CA

ISSN

1058-6393

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0131-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACSSC.2005.1599706

Filename

1599706