Design and Implementation of Baseband Modem Receiver for MIMO-OFDM Based WLANs

MIMO-OFDM 기반 무선 LAN 시스템을 위한 기저대역 모뎀 수신부 설계 및 구현

  • Jang, Soo-Hyun (School of Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer Eng., Korea Aviation University) ;
  • Roh, Jae-Young (School of Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer Eng., Korea Aviation University) ;
  • Jung, Yun-Ho (School of Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer Eng., Korea Aviation University)
  • 장수현 (한국항공대학교 항공전자 및 정보통신 공학부) ;
  • 노재영 (한국항공대학교 항공전자 및 정보통신 공학부) ;
  • 정윤호 (한국항공대학교 항공전자 및 정보통신 공학부)
  • Received : 2010.04.22
  • Accepted : 2010.06.30
  • Published : 2010.06.30

Abstract

In this paper, an efficient algorithm and area-efficient hardware architecture have been proposed for $2{\times}2$ MIMO-OFDM based WLAN baseband modem with two transmit and two receive antennas. To enhance the performance of the receiver, the efficient timing synchronization algorithm and symbol detector based on MML algorithm are presented. Also, by sharing the hardware block with multi-stage pipeline structure and using the complex multiplier based on polar-coordinate, the complexity of the proposed architecture is dramatically decreased. The proposed area-efficient hardware design was designed in hardware description language (HDL) and synthesized to gate-level circuits using 0.13um CMOS standard cell library. As a result, the complexity of the proposed modem receiver is reduced by 56% over the conventional architecture.

본 논문에서는 2개의 송수신 안테나를 갖는 $2{\times}2$ MIMO-OFDM 기반 무선 LAN 기저대역 수신 모뎀을 위한 효율적인 수신 알고리즘 및 면적 효율적인 하드웨어 구조를 제시한다. 수신기 성능향상을 위해 효율적인 시간 동기 알고리즘과 MML 알고리즘 기반 MIMO 심볼 검출기 구조를 제안한다. 또한, 제안된 심볼 검출기는 IEEE 802.11n 무선 LAN 규격에 정의된 대로 MIMO 전송 기법 중 공간 다이버시티 모드뿐 아니라 공간 다중화 모드를 모두 지원하며, 다단 (multi-stage) 파이프라인 구조와 극좌표 형태의 복소수 승산 방법을 사용하여 연산블록의 공유와 연산기의단순화를 진행하였고, 이를 통해 하드웨어 복잡도를 크게 감소시켰다. 제안된 하드웨어 구조는 하드웨어 설계 언어(HDL)를 이용하여 설계 되었고, 0.13um CMOS standard 셀 라이브러리 통해 합성되었다. 그 결과 기존의 설계 구조와 비교시 56% 감소된 하드웨어 복잡도로 구현 가능함을 확인하였다.

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