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Ofdm Design For Ieee 802.11a

The IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN standard operates in the 5-GHz band using OFDM with 64 subcarriers, of which 48 are used for data transmission. It supports various modulation types and has a maximum data rate of 54 Mbps, while the minimum data rate is 6 Mbps. The system bandwidth is divided into 20-MHz channels, and the error correction code can have one of three rates: 1/2, 2/3, or 3/4.

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Ofdm Design For Ieee 802.11a

The IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN standard operates in the 5-GHz band using OFDM with 64 subcarriers, of which 48 are used for data transmission. It supports various modulation types and has a maximum data rate of 54 Mbps, while the minimum data rate is 6 Mbps. The system bandwidth is divided into 20-MHz channels, and the error correction code can have one of three rates: 1/2, 2/3, or 3/4.

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Case Study: The IEEE 802.

11a Wireless LAN Standard


The IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN standard, which occupies 300 MHz of bandwidth in the 5-GHz
unlicensed band, is based on OFDM. In 802.11a, N = 64 subcarriers are generated, although only 48
are actually used for data transmission: the outer 12 are zeroed in order to reduce adjacent channel
interference, and 4 are used as pilot symbols for channel estimation. The same code and modulation
must be used for all the subcarriers at any given time. The error correction code is a convolutional
code with one of three possible code rates: r = 1/2, 2/3, or 3/4. The modulation types that can be used
on the subchannels are BPSK, QPSK, 16-QAM, or 64-QAM.

The total system bandwidth of 300 MHz is divided into 20-MHz channels that can be assigned to
different users. Since the channel bandwidth B (and sampling rate 1/Ts) is 20 MHz and since there are
64 subcarriers evenly spaced over that bandwidth, the subcarrier bandwidth is:
20 𝑀𝐻𝑧
𝐵𝑛 = = 312.5 𝑘𝐻𝑧
64
The maximum delay spread in indoor scenario is assumed to be 0.8 micro seconds, therefore,
𝑁𝑐𝑝
𝑇𝑚 = 0.8 𝜇𝑠 < 𝑁𝑐𝑝 𝑇𝑠 = => 𝑁𝑐𝑝 = 16
20 𝑀𝐻𝑧
Including both the OFDM symbol and cyclic prefix, there are 80 = 64 + 16 samples per OFDM symbol
time, so the symbol time per subchannel is,

𝑇𝑁 = 80𝑇𝑠 = 4 𝜇𝑠

The data rate per subchannel is log2 M/TN. Thus, the minimum data rate for this system corresponding
to BPSK (1 bit /symbol), an r = 1/2 code, and taking into account that only 48 subcarriers actually carry
usable data is given by,
1
𝑅𝑚𝑖𝑛 = 48 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑥 2 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑥
1 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑡 (𝐵𝑃𝑆𝐾) 1 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙
𝑥 = 6 𝑀𝑏𝑝𝑠
1 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙 4 𝜇𝑠

The maximum data rate that can be transmitted is,

3
𝑅𝑚𝑎𝑥 = 48 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑥 4 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑥
6 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑡 (64 𝑄𝐴𝑀) 1 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙
𝑥
1 𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑏𝑜𝑙 4 𝜇𝑠
= 54 𝑀𝑏𝑝𝑠

Ref:
A. Goldsmith, Wireless communications. Cambridge university press, 2005 (Sec. 12.6).

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