Impact of confined environments on WiMedia UWB systems

Journal article

This paper explores the performance of a commercial WiMedia Multi-Band OFDM Ultrawideband development kit in a confined environment. It confirms previous predictions that the forward error correction schemes of WiMedia systems might not be sufficient for confined environments with a high number of multipaths. A carefully designed environment is shown to be able to alleviate the issue and improve the performance by reducing the packet-error rates. Analysis of packet-error-rates obtained for various antenna orientations and polarisations enables us to propose design rules to assist deployment of WiMedia Multi-Band OFDM Ultrawideband wireless systems in confined environments. © 2011 IEEE.

Authors: Sipal, V; Gelabert, J; Stevens, C; Allen, B; Edwards, D

• Journal: LAPC 2011 - 2011 Loughborough Antennas and Propagation Conference
• Publication date: 2011-01-01
• DOI: 10.1109/LAPC.2011.6114072
• Language: English