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Cross Layer Considerations for an Adaptive OFDM-Based Wireless Communication System

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Future applications require high, but variable data rates and different quality of services (QoS) which is a real challenge for the communication system design. Additionally, the broadband radio channel can be assumed to be frequency selective and time variant, which means the transmission performance varies over time and frequency. The OFDM transmission technique is very flexible in adapting the transmission parameters to the current channel situation and to the application-specific requirements. This kind of flexibility will be applied to solve the technical tasks in the design procedures of future communication systems.

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Eiβendorfer Str. 40, D-21073, Hamburg, Germany

    Hermann Rohling & Rainer Grünheid

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Prof. Hermann Rohling received the Diplom Mathematiker degree from the Technical University Stuttgart, Germany in 1977 and the PhD from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Germany in 1984. From 1977 to 1988 he was with the AEG Research Institute, Ulm as a researcher working in the area of digital signal processing for radar and communications applications. From 1988 to 1999 he was a Professor of Communications Engineering at the Technical University Braunschweig (TUBS). Since 1999, Professor Rohling is with the Technical University in Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH), Germany. His research interests include Wideband Mobile Communications especially based on Multicarrier Transmission Techniques (OFDM) for future broadband systems (4G), Wireless Local Loops, Multiple Access and channel coding schemes, Digital Radar Signal Processing especially for automotive radar applications, differential GPS for high precision navigation. Prof. Rohling is a member of ITG, DGON and a senior member of IEEE.

Dr. RainerGrünheid studied Electrical Engineering at theTechnical University Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany, from 1989–1994. After receiving his Diploma degree, he pursued his Ph.D. at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH), Germany, until 2000. Currently, he is working as a research assistant at the Department of Telecommunications at TUHH. His research interests include mobile communications and multicarrier systems (OFDM), with a special emphasis on multiple access schemes, MAC protocols, link adaptation techniques and cross-layer design.

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Rohling, H., Grünheid, R. Cross Layer Considerations for an Adaptive OFDM-Based Wireless Communication System. Wireless Pers Commun 32, 43–57 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-005-2378-8

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