PHY-Layer Resiliency in OFDM Communications: A Tutorial

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 292-314

  Shahriar, Chowdhury ^a   La Pan, Matt ^a   Lichtman, Marc ^a   Clancy, T Charles ^a   McGwier, Robert ^a   Tandon, Ravi ^a   Sodagari, Shabnam ^a   Reed, Jeffrey H ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

anti jamming; Jamming; LTE; MIMO; OFDM; robustness; security; TV white space; WIMAX

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; JAMMING; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MIMO SYSTEMS; MOBILE SECURITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK LAYERS; PHYSICAL ADDRESSES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); WIMAX; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

3GPP LONG TERM EVOLUTIONS; ANTI-JAMMING; LTE; PHYSICAL LAYER SECURITY; SECURITY; TV WHITE SPACES; WAVEFORM STRUCTURE; WIRELESS BROADBAND;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 84925881945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2349883     Document Type: Article

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