Comparison of WLAN multicarrier DS-SS physical layer configurations in measured indoor environment

In this paper we compare two different MCM-DS-SS physical layer configurations for WLANs, by evaluating their performance in terms of bit error rate and frame error rate using measured channel delay profiles. Throughout a comparison of the obtained performance with the results of the DS-SS physical layer of the IEEE 802.11 standard, we point out some important architectural aspects and the potential limiting factors of the performance.

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