Space Division Multiple Access for Wireless Local Area Networks

• Main Authors: Vandenameele, Patrick (Author), Perre, Liesbet Van Der (Author), Engels, Marc (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Series: The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 631
• Subjects: Engineering.; Electrical engineering.; Electrical Engineering.

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) are experiencing a growing importance recently. Whereas WLANs were primarily used for niche applications in the past, they are now deployed as wireless extensions to computer networks. The increase of the datarates from 2 Mbps up to 11 Mbps for roughly a constant...

Table of Contents:

• The Indoor Propagation Channel
• Array Processing Basics
• Spectrally Efficient Wlan
• SDMA for Multi-Carrier Modulation
• SDMA for Single-Carrier Modulation with Cyclic Prefix
• Towards a Practical SDMA System
• Integration of SDMA in a MAC Protocol
• Conclusions.