5.8 GHz Fixed WiMAX Performance in a Sea Port Environment

Author

Joe, J. ; Hazra, S.K. ; Toh, S.H. ; Tan, W.M. ; Shankar, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Infocomm Res., Singapore

fYear

2007

Firstpage

879

Lastpage

883

Abstract

This paper presents a fixed worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) performance at 5.8 GHz in a sea port environment in the presence of multipath, Doppler shift, and boat´s rocking. Multipath and Doppler shift measurements were carried out to understand bit error rate (BER) results from a fixed WiMAX equipment. Percentage probability of root-mean-square (RMS) delay spread from multipath measurement reached 100% within the fixed WiMAX symbol period. Doppler shift was the main factor degrading fixed WiMAX performance. However, it was found that this effect can be significantly mitigated by using a directive antenna. Received signal distribution from antenna mounted on a diving boat was compared with that from antenna mounted on shore to understand the effect of boat´s rocking to signal reception.

Keywords

Doppler shift; WiMax; directive antennas; error statistics; mean square error methods; multipath channels; BER; Doppler shift; RMS delay spread; WiMAX; bit error rate; directive antenna; frequency 5.8 GHz; multipath; received signal distribution; root-mean-square delay spread; sea port environment; worldwide interoperability for microwave access; Antenna measurements; Bit error rate; Boats; Degradation; Delay; Directive antennas; Doppler shift; Receiving antennas; Sea measurements; WiMAX;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC-2007 Fall. 2007 IEEE 66th

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0263-2

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2007.192

Filename

4349841