MIMO Hardware Simulator: Digital Block Design for 802.11ac Applications with TGn Channel Model Test

This paper presents new frequency domain and time domain architectures for the digital block of a hardware simulator of MIMO propagation channels. This simulator can be used for 802.11ac applications. The hardware simulator facilitates the test and validation cycles by replicating channel artifacts...

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Main Authors: Habib, B., Zaharia, G., El Zein, G.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Channel models
Computer architecture
Field programmable gate arrays
Finite impulse response filter
MIMO
Signal to noise ratio
Time domain analysis
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Summary:This paper presents new frequency domain and time domain architectures for the digital block of a hardware simulator of MIMO propagation channels. This simulator can be used for 802.11ac applications. The hardware simulator facilitates the test and validation cycles by replicating channel artifacts in a controllable and repeatable laboratory environment, thus making it possible to ensure the same test conditions in order to compare the performance of various equipments. After the description of the general characteristics of the hardware simulator, the new architectures of the digital block are presented and designed on a Xilinx Virtex-IV FPGA. Their accuracy and latency are analyzed. TGn channel model E tests are given in details. Lastly, results for all TGn channel models are presented.
ISSN:1550-2252
DOI:10.1109/VETECS.2012.6239922