Impact of front-end filters on bit error rate performances in WLAN-OFDM transceivers

Author

Debaillie, B. ; Côme, B. ; Eberle, W. ; Donnay, S. ; Engels, M.

Author_Institution

IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

196

Abstract

OFDM-based WLAN standards target wireless communications in the 5 GHz band for consumer multimedia applications. Digital OFDM transceiver ICs based on frequency domain equalization have been presented. However, it is still a challenge to build a complete system including the front-end with minimum degradation of the overall performance. Focussing on the filters in a mixed-signal WLAN-OFDM front-end, careless design will lead to significant degradation of the system performance, even if the filters fulfil the spectral specifications. We developed a efficient model to analyze the impact on system performance of these filters. This model can be used for designing front-end filters with limited and controllable system performance degradation

Keywords

OFDM modulation; digital integrated circuits; digital radio; dispersive channels; equalisers; error statistics; intersymbol interference; radiofrequency filters; synchronisation; transceivers; wireless LAN; BER performance; ICI; ISI; OFDM-based WLAN standards; WLAN-OFDM transceivers; bit error rate performance; consumer multimedia applications; digital OFDM transceiver IC; dispersive channels; frequency domain equalization; front-end filters; intercarrier interference; intersymbol interference; mixed-signal WLAN-OFDM front-end; nondispersive channels; spectral specifications; synchronisation; system performance; wireless communications; Bit error rate; Communication standards; Degradation; Filters; Multimedia systems; OFDM; System performance; Transceivers; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Conference, 2001. RAWCON 2001. IEEE

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7189-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAWCON.2001.947605

Filename

947605