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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2008.19.6.630

The Effect of Electromagnetic Noise on the Wireless LAN Using Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum  

Kim, Che-Young (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Park, Jeung-Keun (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
Park, Seng-Keun (Spectrum Engineering Research Team, Radio Technology Research Department, Broadcasting & Telecommunications Convergence Research Laboratory)
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Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the cause of throughput degradation on the wireless local area network(WLAN) and the reason of interference level change attributed to the spanned frequency in the presence of electromagnetic interference. We also measured and quantified the electric field strength of interference which yields the abrupt change of the throughput. Two units of WLAN and one unit of AP(Access Point) are configured to maintain the radio link. As the sources of interference, both the co-channel and adjacent-channel interference are considered and the critical values of electric field are provided for each case. Our experimental observations show that the signal strength generated from these interference sources is at most less than 54 dBuV/m @3 m in order to coexist between WLANs and other low power radio devices without any noticeable throughput decreases. Based on our empirical results, as far as 802.11b WLAN is concerned, we believe that the current domestic limit of the signal strength for an extremely low power radio device, 30.9 dBuV/m @3 m, can be increased as much as 23.1 dB.
Keywords
Wireless LAN; Interference; Throughput;
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