Ieee 802.11.n
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The document discusses the history and status of the IEEE 802.11n standard for wireless local area networks. It began development in 2004 with the goal of increasing data throughput up to 540 Mbps. Two competing proposals were eventually merged. Key technologies included in the standard are MIMO and OFDM to improve throughput and range. The standard was finalized in 2006 and incorporated new technologies to support throughput up to 600 Mbps.
Ieee 802.11.n
- 1. IEEE 802.11.n History and Status of IEEE 802.11.n standard avsonline.blogspot.com aVs 997 techfamily
- 2. History • In January 2004 IEEE announced that it had formed a new 802.11 Task Group (TGn) to develop a new amendment to the 802.11 standard for local-area wireless networks. The real data throughput is estimated to reach a theoretical 540 Mbit/s (which may require an even higher raw data rate at the physical layer), and should be up to 40 times faster than 802.11b, and near 10 times faster than 802.11a or 802.11g. It is projected that 802.11n will also offer a better operating distance than current networks. • There were two competing proposals of the 802.11n standard: WWiSE (World-Wide Spectrum Efficiency), backed by companies including Broadcom, and TGn Sync backed by Intel and Philips. • Previous competitors TGnSync, WWiSE, and a third group, MITMOT, said in late July 2005 that they would merge their respective proposals as a draft which would be sent to the IEEE in September; a final version will be submitted in November. The standardization process is expected to be completed by the second half of 2006. • 802.11n builds upon previous 802.11 standards by adding MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM). MIMO uses multiple transmitter and receiver antennas to allow for increased data throughput through spatial multiplexing and increased range by exploiting the spatial diversity, perhaps through coding schemes like Alamouti coding. • The Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC) was formed to help accelerate the IEEE 802.11n development process and promote a technology specification for interoperability of next-generation wireless local area networking (WLAN) products.
- 3. Latest from stanadard comittee January 2006, Kona, Hawaii, US • Task group n has voted unanimously to confirm selection of a joint proposal (EWC’s specification) for high throughput wireless local area networks. This proposal will amend and extend the IEEE 802.11(TM) WirelessLAN standard to incorporate new technologies for increasing the throughput of wireless local area networks up to 600 Mbps.
- 5. EWC proposal-transmitter block • Scrambler – scrambles the data to prevent long sequences of zeros or ones. • Encoder Parser – de-multiplexes the scrambled bits among FEC encoders, in a round robin manner. • FEC encoders – encodes the data to enable error correction • Stream Parser – divides the output of the encoders into blocks that will be sent to different interleaver and mapping devices. The sequences of the bits sent to the interleaver are called spatial streams. • Interleaver – interleaves the bits of each spatial stream (changes order of bits) to prevent long sequences of noisy bits from entering the FEC decoder. • QAM mapping – maps the sequence of bit in each spatial stream to constellation points (complex numbers).
- 6. Transmitter block • Spatial Mapping – maps spatial streams to different transmit chains. This may include one of the following: – Direct mapping – each sequence of constellation points is sent to a different transmit chain. – Spatial expansion – each vector of constellation points from all th1 e sequences is multiplied by a matrix to produce the input to the transmit chains. – Space Time Block coding – constellation points from one spatial stream are spread into two spatial streams using a space time block code. – Beam Forming - similar to spatial expansion: each vector of constellation points from all the sequences is multiplied by a matrix of steering vectors to produce the input to the transmit chains. • Inverse Fast Fourier Transform – converts a block of constellation points to a time domain block.
- 7. Transmitter block • Cyclic shift insertion – inserts the cyclic shift into the time domain block. In the case that spatial expansion is applied that increases the number of transmit chains, the cyclic shift may be applied in the frequency domain as part of spatial expansion. • Guard interval insertion – inserts the guard interval. • Optional windowing – smoothing the edges of each symbol to increase spectral decay
- 8. Operating Modes The PHY will operate in one of 3 modes • Legacy Mode – in this mode packets are transmitted in the legacy 802.11a/g format. • Mixed Mode – in this mode packets are transmitted with a preamble compatible with the legacy 802.11a/g – the legacy Short Training Field (STF), the legacy Long Training Field (LTF) and the legacy signal field are transmitted so they can be decoded by legacy 802.11a/g devices. The rest of the packet has a new format. In this mode the receiver shall be able to decode both the Mixed Mode packets and legacy packets. • Green Field – in this mode high throughput packets are transmitted without a legacy compatible part. This mode is optional. In this mode the receiver shall be able to decode both Green Field mode packets, Mixed Mode packets and legacy format packets.
- 9. PHY in frequency domain The operation of PHY in the frequency domain is divided to the following modes: • LM – Legacy Mode – equivalent to 802.11a/g • HT-Mode – In HT mode the device operates in either 40MHz bandwidth or 20MHz bandwidth and with one to four spatial streams. This mode includes the HT-duplicate mode. • Duplicate Legacy Mode – in this mode the device operates in a 40MHz channel composed of two adjacent 20MHz channel. The packets to be sent are in the legacy 11a format in each of the 20MHz channels. To reduce the PAPR the upper channel (higher frequency) is rotated by 90º relative to the lower channel. • 40 MHz Upper Mode – used to transmit a legacy or HT packet in the upper 20MHz channel of a 40MHz channel. • 40 MHz Lower Mode – used to transmit a legacy or HT packet in the lower 20 MHz channel of a 40MHz channel LM is mandatory and HT-Mode for 1 and 2 spatial streams are also mandatory.
- 10. Modulation and Coding Schemes The Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) is a value that determines the modulation, coding and number of spatial channels. It is a compact representation that is carried in the high throughput signal field. The parameters related to each MCS mode are: • Rate: Coding Rate • NSS: Number of Spatial Streams • NSD: Number of Data Subcarriers • NSP: Number of pilot subcarriers • NBPSC: Number of coded bits per subcarrier per spatial stream • NCBPS: Number of Code Bits Per OFDM Symbol (total of all spatial • 13 streams) • NDBPS: Number of data bits per MIMO-OFDM symbol • NTBPS: Total number of coded bits per subcarrier