An end-to-end prototyping framework for compliant wireless LAN transceivers with smart antennas

  • Authors:
  • Sébastien Roy;Jean-François Boudreault;Louis Dupont

  • Affiliations:
  • Radiocommunication and Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada G1K 7P4;Radiocommunication and Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada G1K 7P4;Radiocommunication and Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada G1K 7P4

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

OFDM Wireless LANs based on the IEEE802.11 standard are complex systems in themselves. When smart antennas are used in such systems, both the MAC and the PHY layers must be redefined in order to achieve application-specific goals. As a result, the development of such systems can become impressively heavy. A complete development framework is presented here. It makes use of hardware/software co-design in order to implement all required layers to develop a wireless access point. The entire framework is targeted at an FPGA platform, providing full flexibility and processing power for the development of PHY layers.