Wireless OFDM systems
Subtitle: how to make them work?
By: edited by Marc Engels.
Contributors: Engels, Marc.
Series: The Kluwer international series in engineering and computer science -- SECS 692
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Wireless LANs; Wireless communication systems; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; Orthogonalization methods
Other titles: Wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Figures List of Tables Preface Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1.1 A connected world emerges 1.2 Wireless OFDM: the next technology wave 1.3 Wireless OFDM systems 1.4 Structure of the book Understanding the indoor environment 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Propagation losses 2.3 Multipath propagation 2.4 Time variant channels 2.5 Conclusions The OFDM Principle 3.1 The OFDM principle 3.2 The OFDM system model 3.3 What if the channel is time-variant? 3.4 OFDM receiver performance 3.5 Coding: an essential ingredient 3.6 Summary When people agree on OFDM 4.1 WLAN standards 4.2 HIPERLAN/2 4.3 Differences between HIPERLAN/2 and IEEE 802.1 la Beating the wireless channel 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Channel models and characteristics 5.3 One-Dimensional Channel Estimators 5.4 Two-Dimensional Channel estimators. Avoiding a tower of Babel 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Effects of out of sync transmission 6.3 Timing synchronisation 6.4 Frequency synchronisation Living with a real radio 7.1 Introduction 7.2 How the front-end impairs the OFDM modem 7.3 A system simulation tool 7.4 Analysis and simulation of the main front-end effects 7.5 Conclusions Putting it all together 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The basedband signal processing ASIC 8.3 The discrete system set-up 8.4 Learning from results.