Wireless OFDM Systems: How to make them work?: 692 (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 692) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402071167 ISBN 13: 9781402071164

Publisher: Springer, 2002

Synopsis

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) experience a growing popularity recently. Where WLANs were primarily used for niche applications in the past, they are now deployed as wireless extensions to computer networks. The increase of the datarates from 2 Mbps up to 11 Mbps for roughly a constant price has played a major role in this breakthrough. As a consequence, an even greater success can be envisioned for the more recent OFDM-based WLAN standards in the 5 GHz band, which offer up to 54 Mbps. At IMEC we have realised this potential already several years ago and have established a successful research programme on OF- based WLAN. In 1995, we started our research on wireless OFDM in the frame of a - operation project with SAIT, a Belgian telecom company. The goal of the project was to establish a robust network for industrial environments. This resulted in a first OFDM chip, supporting QPSK, for wireless networking at the end of the project (1999). 1999 was also the start of an intense co-operation with National Semiconductor Inc., which resulted in a second generation ASIC in 2000. This OFDM processor supports up to QAM-64 and has a more optimal channel estimation algorithm.

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Review

"This book...gives a comprehensive overview of the implementation of OFDM systems. It capitalizes on the large experience of the authors with the implementation of OFDM based WLAN system. For those who study or work on broadband communication in a wireless multipath environment, this book is a useful and easy-to-read reference..."
(Zongsen Wu, Shaowen Song and Tianying Ji, Physics and Computing Dept., Wilfrid Laurier University, ON)

Synopsis

"Wireless OFDM Systems" brings together the broad and extensive experience of the editor and contributors by providing a comprehensive overview of OFDM implementation issues and OFDM based WLAN systems. The book starts with a discussion of indoor propagation channels, followed by an overview of the basics of OFDM, HIPERLAN/2 and IEEE 802.11a standards. Next, readers are lead through a complete design cycle of an OFDM transceiver, starting with channel estimation and synchronization functionality, and carried through to actual realizations. The different influences of the radio front-end on OFDM communication performance are detailed in the next chapters as well as many OFDM practical problems related to non-linear power amplifiers. The authors conclude with illustrations of several practical implementations involving wireless OFDM transceivers. "Wireless OFDM Systems" is a must have reference work for wireless communication designers who are building wireless OFDM transceivers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402071167
• ISBN 13: 9781402071164
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 230
• Editor: Engels Marc