Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a

802.11a and Hiperlan/2 are two major WLAN standard developed by the ETSI and IEEE respectively to meet demands for a mobile with high bandwidth data, voice and video access. This research studies the IEEE 802.11a standard has it is predicated by the telecommunication industry, to be next leading, ad...

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Main Author: Satya Nand, Rajan Ratti
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Language:English
Published: 2006
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spelling my-utm-ep.44482018-01-28T08:07:05Z Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a 2006-09 Satya Nand, Rajan Ratti TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering 802.11a and Hiperlan/2 are two major WLAN standard developed by the ETSI and IEEE respectively to meet demands for a mobile with high bandwidth data, voice and video access. This research studies the IEEE 802.11a standard has it is predicated by the telecommunication industry, to be next leading, advance and important WLAN technology. This system is expected to provide channel adaptive data rates up to 54 Mb/s in a 20 MHz channel spacing in the 5 GHz radio band. An overview and description of IEEE 802.11a is presented. Literature review on past white papers and journal research data is referred before modelling the IEEE 802.11a physical layer. Using Simulink in conjunction with the Matlab software the simulated physical layer and BER versus Eb/No performance results is presented for each defined transmission mode 1 to mode 8 by the IEEE 802.11a standard. The simulated physical layer consists of a transmitter and receiver under a real WLAN mobile link channel. This mobile link channel consists of AWGN, Path Loss, Rician and Rayleigh Fading. Computer simulations with different delay spread values are carried out and the achievable performance with BER floor value of 10-5 in a multipath environment is shown. In which the results show that with the increase of delay spread value there is a graceful degradation of achievable performance. This may be applied to mitigate multipath effect using OFDM based transmission. Further performance improvement is done by modelling a MIMO extension for the existing design. The MIMO design consists of a 2 transmit antenna and 2 receive antenna extended to OFDM design. Results have shown that an average of 8% improvement of Eb/No at BER floor value of 10-5 for all modes with common modulation format and code rate. The research will be applicable in studying and comparing WLAN systems that do not deploy OFDM or MIMO-OFDM in terms of achievable performance. 2006-09 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/4448/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/4448/1/RajanRattiSatyaNandMFKE2006.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Satya Nand, Rajan Ratti
Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a
description 802.11a and Hiperlan/2 are two major WLAN standard developed by the ETSI and IEEE respectively to meet demands for a mobile with high bandwidth data, voice and video access. This research studies the IEEE 802.11a standard has it is predicated by the telecommunication industry, to be next leading, advance and important WLAN technology. This system is expected to provide channel adaptive data rates up to 54 Mb/s in a 20 MHz channel spacing in the 5 GHz radio band. An overview and description of IEEE 802.11a is presented. Literature review on past white papers and journal research data is referred before modelling the IEEE 802.11a physical layer. Using Simulink in conjunction with the Matlab software the simulated physical layer and BER versus Eb/No performance results is presented for each defined transmission mode 1 to mode 8 by the IEEE 802.11a standard. The simulated physical layer consists of a transmitter and receiver under a real WLAN mobile link channel. This mobile link channel consists of AWGN, Path Loss, Rician and Rayleigh Fading. Computer simulations with different delay spread values are carried out and the achievable performance with BER floor value of 10-5 in a multipath environment is shown. In which the results show that with the increase of delay spread value there is a graceful degradation of achievable performance. This may be applied to mitigate multipath effect using OFDM based transmission. Further performance improvement is done by modelling a MIMO extension for the existing design. The MIMO design consists of a 2 transmit antenna and 2 receive antenna extended to OFDM design. Results have shown that an average of 8% improvement of Eb/No at BER floor value of 10-5 for all modes with common modulation format and code rate. The research will be applicable in studying and comparing WLAN systems that do not deploy OFDM or MIMO-OFDM in terms of achievable performance.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Satya Nand, Rajan Ratti
author_facet Satya Nand, Rajan Ratti
author_sort Satya Nand, Rajan Ratti
title Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a
title_short Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a
title_full Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a
title_fullStr Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a
title_full_unstemmed Simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a
title_sort simulation and performance of multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing wireless local area network 802.11a
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2006
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/4448/1/RajanRattiSatyaNandMFKE2006.pdf
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