Field Experiments on Throughput Performance above 100 Mbps in Forward Link for VSF-OFCDM Broadband Wireless Access

Yoshihisa KISHIYAMA
Noriyuki MAEDA
Kenichi HIGUCHI
Hiroyuki ATARASHI
Mamoru SAWAHASHI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.2    pp.604-614
Publication Date: 2005/02/01
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DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.2.604
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Multi-carrier Signal Processing Techniques for Next Generation Mobile Communications--Part2)
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Keyword: 
broadband packet wireless access,  forward link,  VSF-OFCDM,  throughput,  field experiments,  

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Summary: 
This paper presents throughput performance along with power profiles in the time and frequency domains over 100 Mbps based on field experiments using the implemented Variable Spreading Factor-Orthogonal Frequency and Code Division Multiplexing (VSF-OFCDM) transceiver with a 100-MHz bandwidth in a real multipath fading channel. We conducted field experiments in which a base station (BS) employs a 120-degree sectored beam antenna with the antenna height of 50 m and a van equipped with a mobile station (MS) is driven at the average speed of 30 km/h along measurement courses that are approximately 800 to 1000 m away from the BS, where most of the locations along the courses are under non-line-of-sight conditions. Field experimental results show that, by applying 16QAM data modulation and Turbo coding with the coding rate of R = 1/2 to a shared data channel together with two-branch antenna diversity reception, throughput over 100 and 200 Mbps is achieved when the average received signal-to-interference plus noise power ratio (SINR) is approximately 6.0 and 14.0 dB, respectively in a broadband channel bandwidth where a large number of paths such as more than 20 are observed. Furthermore, the location probability for achieving throughput over 100 and 200 Mbps becomes approximately 90 and 20% in these measurement courses, which experience a large number of paths, when the transmission power of the BS is 10 W with a 120-degree sectored beam transmission.