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A fully-integrated 16-element 60-GHz phased-array receiver is implemented in IBM 0.12-μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The receiver employs RF-path phase-shifting and is designed for multi-Gb/s non-line of sight links in the 60-GHz ISM band (IEEE 802.15.3c and 802.11ad). Each RF front-end includes variable-gain LNAs and phase shifters with each front-end capable of 360° variable phase shift (11.25° phase...
Direct-conversion receiver (DCR) architecture has received considerable attention recently owing to its portable architecture and superior performance in terms of power and cost over its super-heterodyne counterpart. Flicker noise is one of the major impairments which severely affects the performance of the system. In this work, we investigate the use of signal processing techniques in the mitigation...
In the IEEE802.11a WLAN standard, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation is employed. Diversity techniques are usually utilized to overcome fading channels in OFDM systems. Furthermore, a diversity technique with one antenna is desirable because the form factor of the terminal is important. Fractional sampling (FS) scheme is one of the diversity techniques with a single antenna...
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is the modulation scheme of choice for digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H), which is required to operate under high mobility conditions resulting in significant Inter-carrier Interference (ICI). To mitigate ICI, several cancellation schemes have been proposed but they require reliable channel information at the receiver which is quite challenging...
Some communication applications, like multimedia, deliver data of different importance classes allowing unequal error protection (UEP) levels. In this paper, a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is considered with a new UEP bit-loading algorithm based on the non-UEP algorithm by Chow, Cioffi, and Bingham. In the proposed bit-loading...
This paper investigates effects of pilot assisted channel estimation on dynamic resource allocation in a multiuser orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. The channel estimation is done in each OFDM symbol through least-squared error (LSE) or minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) algorithm. The performance of each of these algorithms is evaluated through computer simulations. The maximal...
This paper addresses adaptive channel estimation for time-varying mobile wireless channels with nonstationary statistics. We presents a reduced complexity adaptive channel estimator based on a set membership filtering approach known as the Optimal Bounding Ellipsoid (OBE) algorithm. To exploit time and frequency domain correlation properties of the channel in an efficient low-complexity way, we allow...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) systems possess several distinct features such as very high data rate, large multipath or frequency diversity and improved ranging precision while requiring low-power low-complexity transceivers. Among the different modulation schemes, differential PSK is an attractive option because it does not require channel estimation, and hence reduces implementation complexity. This paper...
The next generation of wireless networks (4G) will use OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) in the reverse link. In OFDMA, the reverse link resources assigned to a user are called tiles each of which consists of a subset of consecutive subcarriers. Since at most one user is assigned to each of these tiles then reverse link transmissions within a sector are orthogonal. However, the...
Effects of improved channel estimation are studied for a proposed IEEE 802.11n OFDM MIMO system. Three channel estimation methods are considered: maximum likelihood (ML), time-domain truncation (TDT) and model-based (MB). TDT and MB are particularly useful when the channel delay spread is short. For an MMSE receiver, MB shows a 1-2.5 dB improvement over ML on the packet error rate performance for...
In this paper we consider the coexistence issue between OFDM-based WLANs of the 802.11a family and time-hopping ultra wideband (TH-UWB) systems. A general analytical expression is provided for the bit error rate (BER) of the OFDM transceiver operating in the presence of UWB interference and the interferences caused by the multipath propagation phenomenon on the 802.11a OFDM signal, comprising intersymbol...
In this paper, we investigate the SNR and BER performance of an OFDM system under imperfect synchronization which is caused due to noise, Doppler shift and frequency selective fades in the channel. An analytical expression for BER is derived assuming BPSK modulation and numerical results are presented to show the effect and extent of the above channel impairments in OFDM downlinks.
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