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Wireless OFDM Systems

How to make them work?

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Marc Engels

    1. IMEC, Belgium

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Part of the book series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science (SECS, volume 692)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Marc Engels
    Pages 1-9

  3. Understanding the indoor environment

    • Liesbet Van der Perre, Reto Ness, Steven Thoen, Patrick Vandenameele, Marc Engels
    Pages 11-31

  4. The OFDM Principle

    • Reto Ness, Jean-Paul Linnartz, Liesbet Van der Perre, Marc Engels
    Pages 33-51

  5. When people agree on OFDM

    • Bert Gyselinckx
    Pages 53-74

  6. Beating the wireless channel

    • Luc Deneire
    Pages 75-93

  7. Avoiding a tower of Babel

    • Luc Deneire
    Pages 95-111

  8. Living with a real radio

    • Boris Come, Jan Tubbax
    Pages 113-150

  9. Putting it all together

    • Wolfgang Eberle
    Pages 151-189

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 191-205
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Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) experience a growing popularity recently. Where WLANs were primarily used for niche applications in the past, they are now deployed as wireless extensions to computer networks. The increase of the datarates from 2 Mbps up to 11 Mbps for roughly a constant price has played a major role in this breakthrough. As a consequence, an even greater success can be envisioned for the more recent OFDM-based WLAN standards in the 5 GHz band, which offer up to 54 Mbps. At IMEC we have realised this potential already several years ago and have established a successful research programme on OF- based WLAN. In 1995, we started our research on wireless OFDM in the frame of a - operation project with SAIT, a Belgian telecom company. The goal of the project was to establish a robust network for industrial environments. This resulted in a first OFDM chip, supporting QPSK, for wireless networking at the end of the project (1999). 1999 was also the start of an intense co-operation with National Semiconductor Inc., which resulted in a second generation ASIC in 2000. This OFDM processor supports up to QAM-64 and has a more optimal channel estimation algorithm.

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"This book...gives a comprehensive overview of the implementation of OFDM systems. It capitalizes on the large experience of the authors with the implementation of OFDM based WLAN system. For those who study or work on broadband communication in a wireless multipath environment, this book is a useful and easy-to-read reference..."
(Zongsen Wu, Shaowen Song and Tianying Ji, Physics and Computing Dept., Wilfrid Laurier University, ON)

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  • IMEC, Belgium

    Marc Engels

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