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Performance Improvement of the Smart Antenna Placed in Wi-Fi Access Point

와이파이AP 용 FFT 전단 스마트안테나의 성능 개선

  • Hong, Young-Jin (Department of Electrical Engineering, Tongmyong University)
  • 홍영진 (동명대학교 전기공학과)
  • Received : 2013.04.16
  • Accepted : 2013.05.09
  • Published : 2013.05.31
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Abstract

OFDM Wi-Fi AP is susceptible to the co-channel interference. As a countermeasure, the insertion of a smart has been addressed. Despite of the guaranteed efficiency, the complexity of the post-FFT algorithm often keeps itself from being selected as the countermeasure. Instead, simply constructed pre-FFT smart antenna of which the algorithm is based on the received signal covariance matrix is commonly used and the mathematical modeling of it has been deployed. Computer simulations evaluating the improved BER characteristics of the proposed pre-FFT using the covariance matrix of channel estimator output have been carried out. It has been demonstrated that channel matrix output based smart antenna is superior to that using received signal covariance matrix.

Wi-Fi AP(Access Point)의 기반구조인 OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)의 동일채널 간섭신호에 대한 취약성과 그 대책의 하나인 OFDM과 스마트안테나의 결합구조가 설명되었다. 높은 효율을 보장하지만 복잡성을 수반하는 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) 후단 구조 대신 저렴한 구축비용이 장점인 수신신호 분산행렬 기반의 FFT 전단 스마트안테나의 수학적 모델이 전개되었다. 그 BER(Bit Error Rate) 특성을 높이기 위하여 제안된 채널행렬 출력 분산행렬을 기반으로 한 FFT 전단 구조 스마트안테나의 성능 측정을 위한 컴퓨터 모의실험이 수행되었다. 수신신호 분산행렬에 의해 생성된 가중치벡터에 비해 채널행렬 출력에 의한 가중치벡터가 다양한 페이딩 환경 변화에서 우월한 성능을 보임이 증명되었다.

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