Impact of RF Impairments on the Performance of Multi-carrier and Single-carrier based 60 GHz Transceivers

Author

Rizvi, Umar H. ; Janssen, Gerard J M ; Weber, Jos H.

Author_Institution

Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft

fYear

2007

fDate

15-15 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The 60 GHz band, with a large unlicensed bandwidth, is an excellent choice for short distance high-speed communications. However, radio frequency (RF) circuit limitations at 60 GHz give rise to impairments such as phase noise, in-phase/quadrature-phase (I/Q) imbalance and amplifier nonlinearities. The candidate transmission schemes, in addition to multi-path fading, should therefore be fairly robust against RF circuit imperfections. This paper investigates the performance degradation as a function of various circuit parameters for multi-carrier (MC) and single-carrier (SC) schemes, which can be useful for:( i) performing a system cost and performance tradeoff comparison, (ii) identifying main performance bottle necks for MC and SC based systems.

Keywords

fading channels; millimetre wave integrated circuits; multipath channels; transceivers; RF impairments; candidate transmission schemes; frequency 60 GHz; multicarrier based 60 GHz transceivers; multipath fading; performance degradation; radio frequency circuit limitations; short distance high-speed communications; single-carrier based 60 GHz transceivers; Bandwidth; Circuits; Cost function; Degradation; Fading; Noise robustness; Phase noise; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Vehicular Technology in the Benelux, 2007 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Delft

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1369-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1370-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCVT.2007.4436256

Filename

4436256