A real-time 4-stream MIMO-OFDM transceiver: System design, FPGA implementation, and characterization

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 877-889

  Haene, Simon ^a,b   Perels, David ^a,b   Burg, Andreas ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

802.11n; FPGA implementation; Measurements; MIMO; OFDM; Prototype; VLSI

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DECODING; ESTIMATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GAIN CONTROL; MIM DEVICES; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RIVERS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRANSCEIVERS;

802.11N; ALGORITHM AND IMPLEMENTATION; CHANNEL DECODING; DESIGNING COMPLEX; FPGA IMPLEMENTATION; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; INITIAL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENTS; MIMO; MIMO DETECTION; MIMO-OFDM; OFDM; PROTOTYPE; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; SYSTEM DESIGNS; VLSI;

MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 49249131819     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2008.080805     Document Type: Article

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