Coupled Simulation-Measurements Platform for the Evaluation of Frequency Reuse in the 2.45 GHz ISM Band for Multimode Nodes with Multiple Antennas

• Published in: EURASIP journal on wireless communications and networking Vol. 2010; no. 1; p. 302151
• Main Authors: Villemaud, Guillaume, Morlat, Pierre-François, Verdier, Jacques, Gorce, JM, Arndt, Marylin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01.01.2010; Springer Nature B.V; SpringerOpen
• Subjects: Communications Engineering; Engineering; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Networks; Propagation; Research Article; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Simulation; Simulators and Experimental Testbeds Design and Development for Wireless Networks; Studies; Wireless networks; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex; Receive Signal Strength Indicator; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex Signal; Minimum Mean Square Error; Radio Link
• ISSN: 1687-1499; 1687-1472; 1687-1499
• DOI: 10.1155/2010/302151

We address the problem of efficiently evaluating performance of concurrent radio links on overlapped channels. In complex network topologies with various standards and frequency channels, simulating a realistic PHY layer communication is a key point. The presented coupled simulation-measurement platform offers a very promising way of rapidly modelling and validating effective performance of multimode, multichannel and multiantenna radio nodes. An accurate analysis of radio channel is performed and then realistic performance with or without antenna processing is shown, verifying theoretical performance. Finally, available performance of concurrent communications on overlapped channels is exposed, showing that this approach is viable to enhance network capacity.