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To: P2V who wrote (12684)	12/7/2003 12:59:10 PM
From: Rob S.	Respond to of 12823

What is different about 802.16a is not just that it uses W-OFDM. As you asked, what is different about that than the use of OFDM found in 802.11a/.11g? Well, there are some major differences including how finely grained the channelization is designed. But more significant is the ability of 802.16a to combine various technologies to enhance NLOS and range characteristics. Wi-Lan has a 'basic' patent on W-OFDM, a base technology used in 802.16a WiMAX systems. But one of the strengths of W-OFDM is the ability to use smart targetable array antenna systems, MIMO and other enhancements much more effectively than can be done using 802.11 standards.

To: P2V who wrote (12684)	12/9/2003 6:46:45 PM
From: Dexter Lives On	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

New direction in China 4G: OFT, a few notes from your friend Willie Lu at Infineon .... 4G Mobile Research in Asia MIMO and OFDM Increasing demand for high performance 4G broadband wireless mobile calls for use of multiple antennas at both base station and subscriber ends. Multiple antenna technologies enable high capacities suited for Internet and multimedia services and also dramatically increase range and reliability. This design is motivated by the growing demand for broadband wireless Internet access. The challenge for wireless broadband access lies in providing a comparable quality of service for similar cost as competing wireline technologies. The target frequency band for this system is 2 to 5 GHz due to favorable propagation characteristics and low radio-frequency (RF) equipment cost. The broadband channel is typically non-LOS channel and includes impairments such as time-selective fading and frequency-selective fading. Multiple antennas at the transmitter and receiver provide diversity in a fading environment. By employing multiple antennas, multiple spatial channels are created and it is unlikely all the channels will fade simultaneously. OFDM is chosen over a single carrier solution due to lower complexity of equalizers for high delay spread channels or high data rates. A broadband signal is broken down into multiple narrowband carriers (tones), where each carrier is more robust to multipath. In order to maintain orthogonality amongst tones, a cyclic prefix is added which has length greater than the expected delay spread. With proper coding and interleaving across frequencies, multipath turns into an OFDM system advantage by yielding frequency diversity. OFDM can be implemented efficiently by using FFT’s at the transmitter and receiver. At the receiver, FFT reduces the channel response into a multiplicative constant on a tone-by-tone basis. With MIMO, the channel response becomes a matrix. Since each tone can be equalized independently, the complexity of space-time equalizers is avoided. Multipath remains an advantage for a MIMO-OFDM system since frequency selectivity caused by multipath improves the rank distribution of the channel matrices across frequency tones, thereby increasing capacity ... SIP Cores (Silicon Intellectual Property) Initial engine optimized for B3G/4G applications Core of Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) delson.org sasken.com Best, Cool Hand Luke