Design, Implementation and Testing of a Real-Time Mobile WiMAX Testbed Featuring MIMO Technology

Oriol Font-Bach; Nikolaos Bartzoudis; Antonio Pascual-Iserte; David Bueno

Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Design, Implementation and Testing of a Real-Time Mobile WiMAX Testbed Featuring MIMO Technology

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_16,
    author={Oriol Font-Bach and Nikolaos Bartzoudis and Antonio Pascual-Iserte and David Bueno},
    title={Design, Implementation and Testing of a Real-Time Mobile WiMAX Testbed Featuring MIMO Technology},
    proceedings={Testbeds and Research Infrastructures. Development of Networks and Communities. 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
    year={2012},
    month={10},
    keywords={MIMO testbeds IEEE 802.16e real-time systems FPGAs DSP},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_16}
}

Oriol Font-Bach
Nikolaos Bartzoudis
Antonio Pascual-Iserte
David Bueno
Year: 2012
Design, Implementation and Testing of a Real-Time Mobile WiMAX Testbed Featuring MIMO Technology
TRIDENTCOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_16

Oriol Font-Bach¹^,*, Nikolaos Bartzoudis¹^,*, Antonio Pascual-Iserte^,*, David Bueno¹^,*

1: Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia (PMT)

*Contact email: ofont@cttc.cat, nbartzoudis@cttc.cat, antonio.pascual@upc.edu, dlopez@cttc.cat

Abstract

Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) is a technology that enhances wireless systems capacity, data rate, and coverage by utilizing the spatial diversity provided by multiple antennas. However, these benefits come at the expense of increased computational complexity. Implementing a broadband MIMO wireless communication system in a real-time testbed is a challenging task, entailing numerous pitfalls. This paper presents several implementation aspects of a real-time MIMO testbed based on the mobile WiMAX standard. The focus is mainly laid on the bit-intensive baseband digital signal processing at the receiver.

Keywords: MIMO testbeds IEEE 802.16e real-time systems FPGAs DSP

Published: 2012-10-10

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17851-1_16