Range and throughput enhancement of wireless local area networks using smart sectorised antennas

A Doufexi; SMD Armour; AR Nix; P Karlsson; DR Bull

doi:10.1109/TWC.2004.833461

Range and throughput enhancement of wireless local area networks using smart sectorised antennas

A Doufexi, SMD Armour, AR Nix, P Karlsson, DR Bull

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Abstract

At present, wireless local area networks (WLANs) such as HiperLAN2 and 802.11a are being developed and deployed around the world. In this letter, the use of sectorized antennas is considered as a means to improve the physical layer performance of WLANs. Results demonstrate that throughput and range can be enhanced and/or the transmit power can be reduced. However, these benefits are achieved with a small increase in multiple access protocol overhead. Simulations are performed using measured wideband channels in the 5-GHz band. In cases where the channel exhibits strong Rician characteristics, gains as high as 13 dB are demonstrated. These benefits substantially outweigh the associated medium access control overhead.

Translated title of the contribution	Range and throughput enhancement of wireless local area networks using smart sectorised antennas
Original language	English
Article number	No. 5
Pages (from-to)	1437 - 1443
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume	3
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2004.833461
Publication status	Published - Sep 2004

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Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Keywords

HIPERLAN2
IEEE 802.11
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
smart antennas
wireless local area networks (WLANs)

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Range and throughput enhancement of wireless local area networks using smart sectorised antennas

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