Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
A high-speed four-transmitter four-receiver MIMO OFDM testbed: experimental results and analyses
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A MIMO-OFDM testbed, channel measurements, and system considerations for outdoor-indoor wimax
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
Enhancing downlink performance in wireless networks by simultaneous multiple packet transmission
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
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A real-time testbed based on the technology of software radio is adopted to efficiently evaluate cutting-edge technologies in wireless communications, and thus becomes a valuable tool for both academic research and system prototyping. In this article we describe a software radio testbed, established in the software radio laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, used to implement a physical layer similar to IEEE 802.11a space-time coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. The testbed consists of a 2 x 2 multiple-input multiple-output configuration with powerful digital signal processor chains, high-speed data exchange interfaces, and many advanced subsystem modules, such as high-speed high-resolution analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, digital up/downconverters, and wideband RF transmit and receive front-ends with synchronous channels and programmable settings. The design methodology and implementation for key algorithms, such as time, sampling, and frequency synchronization, and channel estimation and compensation are discussed. The experimental data obtained from a typical indoor environment demonstrates that the prototype is capable of providing 30 Mb/s peak data rate, operating at the central frequency of 2.435 GHz with a spectral occupancy of 6.25 MHz. Spatial-temporal diversity gain associated with space-time coding is verified by the experimental results.