Performance Analysis of Adaptive

Equalizer Design for OFDM Wireless

LAN

指導老師 : 高永安
學 生 : 蘇家弘
 Sun-Wook Kim; Kyun Hyon Tchah;
“Performance Analysis of Adaptive Equalizer
Design for OFDM Wireless LAN” IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol.
50, Issue: 2, pp. 512-516, May 2004
Problem & Proposed
scheme
 Channel Impulse Response >
Guard Interval

 An adaptive Time-domain
Equalizer and a 1-tap Frequency-
domain Equalizer using long
training symbols
Channel model
 The channel is fading slow enough
for the channel to be a constant
during the OFDM packet
 Discrete-time impulse response of
the multipath fading channel can
be described by Time delay of
M the m-th path
h( n)    m  ( n   m )
m0

Complex gain
Conventional OFDM
receiver

Inclusive of preamble
 Received time-domain OFDM data
symbol z(n,l) is described as
M
z (n, l )    m x(n   m , l )  w(n, l )
m0

M   M  G, m  G
 0, m  G

 Via FFT
N 1 2
j kn
Z (k , l )  FFTN [ z (n, l )]   z (n, l )e N

k 0
Channel estimation
 P(k,l) is the long training symbol and
R(k,l) is the received long training
symbol
R(k,l) = H(k)P(k,l)+W(k,l), l=1,2
P(k,l) = P(k,l)
Ĥ(k) = [R(k,1)+ R(k,2)]/2P(k,1)
= H(k)+ [W(k,1)+ W(k,2)]/2P(k,1)

 Data symbol in frequency domain can

be V(k,l)=Z(k,l)/Ĥ(k,l)
recovered as
 ISI can not be completely canceled
 GI < CIR(τm<G)
Z (k,l) =H(k)X(k,l) + I(k,l) + W(k,l)
 I(k,l) takes into account the interference
of the residual ISI and the ICI caused by
the multipath fading
Proposed OFDM receiver
LMS time domain
equalizer
 The channel estimation and the
tap adaptation process of the LMS
TEQ filter  = C(j,n,l)+μe(n)r*[(n-j),l]
C(j,n+1,l)
e(n,l)=t(n,l) - zg(n,l)

 μ is the step size, j is the tap number,

C(j,n,l) is the tap weight
Simulation conditions
 IEEE802.11a OFDM WLAN under
channel A and Channel B
modulation type is 16QAM, utilize
hard decision Viterbi decoder
Case 1. Conventional receiver employing 1/4 GI and 1-tap FEQ
Case 2. Proposed receiver employing LMS TEQ and 1-tap FEQ
without GI
Case 3. Proposed receiver employing LMS TEQ and 1-tap FEQ
with 1/8 GI
 Channel A  Channel B
Conclusion
 The proposed receiver can achieve better BER
performance and higher spectral efficiency
than conventional OFDM receiver under two
different channel conditions
 The proposed equalizer scheme is especially
suitable for severe delay spread conditions,
even though the allowable GI length is
exceeded
 This scheme can be used for fixed outdoor
wireless OFDM systems such as
IEEE802.16a(Wireless MAN)