Design considerations for the multiband OFDM physical layer in consumer electronic products

Sherratt, R.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7899-4445 (2006) Design considerations for the multiband OFDM physical layer in consumer electronic products. In: Glasman, K. and Logunov, A. (eds.) 2006 IEEE Tenth International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics. IEEE, New York, pp. 234-238. ISBN 1424402158

Abstract/Summary

The creation of Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) offers the Consumer Electronics industry a mechanism to truly unwire consumer products, leading to portability and ease of installation as never seen before. WPAN's can offer data-rates exceeding those that are required to convey high quality broadcast video, thus users can easily connect to high quality video for multimedia presentations in education, libraries, advertising, or have a wireless connection at home. There have been many WPAN proposals, but this paper concentrates on ECMA-368 as this standard has the largest industrial and implementers' forum backing. This paper discusses the technology behind ECMA-368, the required numerical bandwidth, buffer memory requirements and implementation considerations while concentrating on supporting all the offered data-rates'.