Very high throughput evaluation of emerging mmWave WLANs

This paper investigates the achievable very high throughput (VHT) of the emerging IEEE 802.11ad standard operating at 60 GHz ISM band. The specified modulation and coding schemes are evaluated in a 60 GHz conference room channel. Two IEEE 802.11ad physical layers were considered namely, orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) physical layer and single carrier (SC). Evaluation was conducted by link level simulations in terms of packet error rate (PER) and throughput. Simulation results highlighted the tradeoffs and limitations of most modulation and coding schemes based on SC and OFDM physical layers.

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