MAC and baseband hardware platforms for RF-MIMO WLAN

Z. Stamenković; K. Tittelbach-Helmrich; M. Krstić; J. Ibanez; V. Elvira; I. Santamaria

MAC and baseband hardware platforms for RF-MIMO WLAN

Z. Stamenković^*
, K. Tittelbach-Helmrich
, M. Krstić
, J. Ibanez
, V. Elvira
, I. Santamaria

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Mathematics

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Abstract

The paper describes hardware solutions for the IEEE 802.11 MAC (Medium Access Control) layer and IEEE 802.11a digital baseband in an RF-MIMO WLAN transceiver that performs the signal combining in the analogue domain. Architecture and implementation details of the MAC processor including a hardware accelerator and a 16-bit MAC-PHY interface are presented. The proposed hardware solution is tested and verified using a PHY link emulator. Architecture, design, implementation, and test of a reconfigurable digital baseband processor are described too. Description includes the baseband algorithms (the main blocks being MIMO channel estimation and Tx-Rx analog beamforming), their FPGA-based implementation, baseband printed-circuit-board, and real-time tests.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Papers - 5th European Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, ECCSC'10
Pages	26-33
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010
Event	5th European Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, ECCSC'10 - Belgrade, Serbia Duration: 23 Nov 2010 → 25 Nov 2010

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Conference	5th European Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, ECCSC'10
Country/Territory	Serbia
City	Belgrade
Period	23/11/10 → 25/11/10

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Baseband
MAC
MIMO
Processor

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Stamenković, Z, Tittelbach-Helmrich, K, Krstić, M, Ibanez, J, Elvira, V & Santamaria, I 2010, MAC and baseband hardware platforms for RF-MIMO WLAN. in Proceedings of Papers - 5th European Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, ECCSC'10., 5733849, pp. 26-33, 5th European Conference on Circuits and Systems for Communications, ECCSC'10, Belgrade, Serbia, 23/11/10.

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MAC and baseband hardware platforms for RF-MIMO WLAN

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