《A road to future broadband wireless access MIMO-OFDM-Based air interface》.pdf

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS IN CHINA: TECHNOLOGY VS. MARKETS A Road to Future Broadband Wireless Access: MIMO-OFDM-Based Air Interface Hongwei Yang, Alcatel Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd. ABSTRACT 100 Mb/s with CDMA due to excessive interfer- ence between services. The other is the difficulty Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing is of providing a full range of multirate services, all a popular method for high-data-rate wireless with different quality of service (QoS) and per- transmission. OFDM may be combined with formance requirements, due to the restrictions multiple antennas at both the access point and imposed on the core network by the air interfer- mobile terminal to increase diversity gain and/or ence standard. Therefore, the future mobile enhance system capacity on a time-varying multi- communication system with features of high- path fading channel, resulting in a multiple-input data-rate transmission and open network archi- multiple-output OFDM system. In this article we tecture, called 4G, is desired to satisfy the give a brief technical overview of MIMO-OFDM increasing demand for broadband wireless system design. We focus on various research top- access. Hence, 4G refers to a collection of tech- ics for the MIMO-OFDM-based air interface, nologies and standards that will find their way including spatial channel modeling, MIMO- into a ra