A pre-FFT equalizer design for application to Hiperlan/2

SMD Armour; AR Nix; David Bull

doi:10.1109/VETECF.2000.886113

A pre-FFT equalizer design for application to Hiperlan/2

SMD Armour, AR Nix, David Bull

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Use of a pre-FFT Equaliser (PFE) has been previously proposed as a method for either improving the efficiency of OFDM radio modems or increasing the excess delay spread that they are capable of operating under. In this paper, application of the PFE to the Hiperlad/2 standard is considered. Key features of the physical layer specification of the Hiperlad/2 standard are summarised and those aspects that are particularly relevant when considering the use of the PFE are highlighted. A Hiperlad/2 compatible OFDM receiver incorporating the PFE, known as a combined OFDM-equalisation receiver, is then described. In order to evaluate the relative performance of the conventional OFDM and combined OFDM-equalisation receivers, a Hiperlad/2 compliant software simulation of the two receivers is undertaken. The results are used to compare the two systems in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER)and Packet Error Rate (PER) versus Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and also in terms of transmission eficiency. It is shown that the combined FDM-equalisation receiver is capable of achieving near identical performance to the conventional OFDW receiver in terms of bit error rates, but is further capable of achieving a 9% efficiency improvement. This equates to a potential increase of up to 6Mbits/s in the supported data rate. The application of the PFE to improve BER and PER performance under severe delay spread conditions is also discussed.

Original language	English
Pages	1690 - 1697
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VETECF.2000.886113
Publication status	Published - 24 Sep 2000

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Sponsorship: The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the UK government’s Electronics and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

Terms of use: Copyright © 2000 IEEE. Reprinted from Proceedings of 52nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Fall-2000. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of the University of Bristol's products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org.

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Name of Conference: 52nd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2000 (VTC Fall-2000)
Venue of Conference: Boston, Mass.

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Hiperlad2
pre-FTT

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