Performance comparison of multicarrier DS-SS radio access schemes for WLAN using measured channel delay profiles

In this paper we propose two different MCM (multicarrier modulation)-DS-SS radio access schemes for WLANs and we evaluate their performance in terms of bit error rate and frame error rate by using measured channel delay profiles, in different indoor environments. By comparing 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.

[1]  K. Pahlavan,et al.  A comparison between the performance of FHSS and DSSS for wireless LANs using a 3D ray tracing program , 1995, 1995 IEEE 45th Vehicular Technology Conference. Countdown to the Wireless Twenty-First Century.

[2]  Americo Brajal,et al.  Orthogonal multicarrier techniques applied to direct sequence spread spectrum CDMA systems , 1993, Proceedings of GLOBECOM '93. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference.

[3]  Jean-Paul M. G. Linnartz,et al.  Multi-Carrier Cdma In Indoor Wireless Radio Networks , 1994 .

[4]  B. Bourin.  HIPERLAN-markets and applications standardisation issues , 1994, 5th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, Wireless Networks - Catching the Mobile Future..