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A low-power antenna selective synchronization method for IEEE 802.11ac WLAN systems

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Pages 1104-1116 | Received 24 Dec 2014, Accepted 20 Mar 2015, Published online: 12 May 2015
 

Abstract

This paper proposes an antenna selective timing synchronization method for multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based IEEE 802.11ac wireless local area network systems. IEEE 802.11ac systems support up to eight antenna elements for adopting an MIMO technique. The increase in the number of antennas results in high power consumption due to the very high computational complexity involved. In addition, cyclic delay diversity applied for each antenna causes timing synchronization difficulties due to the pseudo-multipath problems. In order to solve these problems, a method to reduce the computational complexity of the synchronization is proposed by utilizing selective antennas with higher received signal power. The timing synchronization method with the adaptive accumulation window is also proposed to enhance synchronization performance. The simulation and power estimation results show that the proposed timing synchronization method not only improves the performance, but also reduces the computation power considerably. The proposed method is very useful for IEEE 802.11ac wireless LAN systems, where not only synchronization performance but also computation power is one of the most important issues.

Notes

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MOE) [grant number 2013R1A1A2064733]; and CAD tools are supported by IDEC in Korea.

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