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Adaptive equalization for high-speed indoor wireless data communication

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The performance of a 4-QAM indoor wireless data communication system with adaptive equalizer is investigated. The effectiveness of using linear and decision-feedback equalizer for Rayleigh and Rician frequency-selective indoor channels is evaluated, and contrasted to the performance of a 4-QAM modem without equalizer. The effects of some important channel and system parameters (multipath spreads up to 200 ns, data rates up to 25 Mbit/s, signaling pulse rolloff factor between 0.5 and 1.0, and additive, white Gaussian noise) on the indoor communication system performance are examined and presented in the paper. The indoor propagation measurements, carried out in a research laboratory, provided data to be used for BER performance assessments of the system with and without equalizer. The performance results based on computer generated channels are then compared with those obtained for measured channel impulse responses.

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Zigic, A. Adaptive equalization for high-speed indoor wireless data communication. Wireless Pers Commun 1, 229–251 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01099777

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