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System capacity and cell radius comparison

with several high data rate WLANs

Satoru Hori, Yasuhiko Inoue, Tetsu Sakata, Masahiro Morikura

NTT
hori@ansl.ntt.co.jp

Submission

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Approach to 100 Mbps WLAN

PHY Layer Requirements for Next Generation WLAN
- Data rate above 100 Mbps
- Enough cell radius
- Large system capacity
Comparison between several candidates
- Extension of IEEE 802.11a
- Data rate of 108 Mbit/s (twice as 54 Mbit/s in IEEE 802.11a)

Submission

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Four candidates extending IEEE 802.11 a

A: double clock rate
clock rate of the system is twice as fast as that of IEEE 802.11 a
e.g. clock rate: 20 MHz
40 MHz

B: double sub-carrier numbers

number of sub-carriers is twice as many as that of IEEE 802.11 a
e.g. 52 sub-carriers
104 sub-carriers
C: 4096 QAM-OFDM
increasing the number of bits in M-ary QAM on each sub-carrier
e.g. 64 QAM
4096 QAM
D: OFDM/SDM (multi-carrier MIMO) system
using multiple transmit and receive antennas
each antenna transmit different data to increase transmit data rate
e.g. 2 transmit antennas and 2 receive antennas

Reference
A. van Zelst, R. van Nee, and G. A. Awater, Space Division Multiplexing (SDM) for OFDM systems,
Proc. IEEE VTC2000-spring, vol. 2, pp.1070-1074, May 2000.
P.Vandenameele, L. V. D.Perre, M. G. E.engels, B. Gyselinckx, and H. J. D. Man, A Combined
OFDM/SDMA Approach, IEEE J. Sel. Areas in Commun., vol. 18, no. 11, Nov. 2000.

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Parameters of each system

Data rate

A: double
clock rate
108 Mbit/s

Band width

33.1 MHz

33.1 MHz

16.6 MHz

16.6 MHz

Number of
channels
Number of
sub-carriers
symbol length

6 channels
(USA)
52

6 channels
(USA)
104

12 channels
(USA)
52

12 channels
(USA)
52

2 s

4 s

4 s

4 s

GI length

400 ns

800 ns

800 ns

800 ns

Mod. scheme 64 QAM

64 QAM

4096 QAM

64 QAM

Number of
antennas

receiver : 2
(diversity)

receiver : 2
(diversity)

Submission

receiver : 2
(diversity)

B: double
C: 4096 QAM- D: OFDM/
sub-carriers OFDM
SDM
108 Mbit/s
108 Mbit/s
108 Mbit/s

transmitter : 2
receiver : 2

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Cell Radius Calculation

d = ( / 4) 10(Lp /10 ) [m]
Lp = Pt + Gt + Gr - Pr [dB]
Pr = Np + Cr + Df
[dBm]
Np = Nf + 10log10(kBwT) + 30

[dBm]

d : cell radius
: wave length ( = c/f = 0.0576923 [m] for 5.2GHz )
: propagation loss coefficient
Lp : allowed propagation loss
Pt , Pr : transmit power and required received power, respectively
Gt, Gr : the gain of transmit antenna and receive antenna, respectively
(was assumed to be 0 dBi)
Np : noise power
Nf : noise figure of the receiver (was assumed to be 7 dB)
Df : degradation due to various factors (was assumed to be 6 dB)
Bw : bandwidth of signals
T : temperature (was assumed to be 300 K)
k : Boltzman coefficient (= 1.38 * 10-23 [J/K] )
Cr : required CNR to realize PER of 1%
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System Capacity Calculation

Th=(R * * Nch)/C=3sqrt(3) * Nch * R * /(2 * 102CIR/10)
Th : Maximum throughput
R : data rate of PHY layer ( = 108 Mbit/s)
: MAC efficiency for throughput (was assumed to be 1.0)
Nch : Number of channels ( = 12 for 20MHz band width and
6 for 40MHz band width ) (Lower, Middle and Upper UNII bands)
C : Cluster size ( = Interference area / Cell space )
CIR : Required CIR to achieve PER of 1%

Cell space
Interference area
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Required CNR
Data rate 108 Mbit/s
Packet size 64 byte
Exponentially decaying
Rayleigh fading
(delay spread 100 ns)
No space correlation

FEC
coding rate = 3/4
constraint length = 7
5 bit soft-decision

B:double sub-carriers

C: 4096 QAM-OFDM

-1

10

PER

Ideal synchronization
Ideal channel estimation

10

D: OFDM/SDM

-2

10

A:double clock rate

diversity (A, B, C)
Maximum ratio combining
-3

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

CNR [dB]
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Required CIR

A:double clock rate

Data rate 108 Mbit/s

Packet size 64 byte
Exponentially decaying
Rayleigh fading
(delay spread 100 ns)
No space correlation

C: 4096 QAM-OFDM

-1

10

PER

Ideal synchronization
Ideal channel estimation

10

FEC
coding rate = 3/4
constraint length = 7
5 bit soft-decision
diversity (A, B, C)
Maximum ratio combining

-2

10

D: OFDM/SDM

B:double sub-carriers

-3

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

CIR [dB]
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Performance Comparison
A: double
clock rate

B: double
C: 4096 QAM- D: OFDM /
sub-carriers OFDM
SDM

Required CNR

19.5 dB

18.8 dB

36.1 dB

29.2 dB

Transmit
power
Propagation loss
coefficient

13 dBm

13 dBm

13 dBm

13 dBm

3.1

3.1

3.1

3.1

Cell radius

11.4 m

12.0 m

4.1 m

6.9 m

Required CIR

20.3 dB

20.0 dB

37.2 dB

29.8 dB

Cluster size

24.7

23.6

303.7

101.2

System capacity

26.4 Mbit/s

27.6 Mbit/s

4.2 Mbit/s

12.9 Mbit/s

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Conclusion
Systems with 40 MHz band width (A and B)
- CNR and CIR are pragmatic.
- Total number of channels is one half of that of
IEEE 802.11 a.
e.g. 6 channels in USA, only 2 channels in Japan
Systems with 20 MHz band width (C and D)
- Total number of channels is same as that of IEEE
802.11 a.
- CNR and CIR must be improved significantly.

Submission

S. Hori, Y Inoue, T. Sakata, M. Morikura / NTT.