Punctured Convolutional Coding Scheme for Multi-Carrier Multi-Antenna

Wireless Systems

Christopher Lamont Taylor, M.S.2001 (advisor: Jan Rabaey)

The work presented here is to begin to think about ways for future wireless communication systems to thrive with the growing shortage of signal bandwidth. Are there ways for existing wireless systems to share and use a common bandwidth efficiently and without interference among each other? Bandwidth for today’s wireless technology is at a premium, and in some cases is the bottleneck in delivering high data rate services to people worldwide. The overall theme of this research is to create a framework that consists of complex wireless systems that demonstrate the gain from Multiple Element Array (MEA) algorithms to provide high data rates at high bandwidth efficiency. Algorithm implementations in CMOS are expected to carry the brunt of the processing power needed; therefore it is essential that communication systems of the future be developed with implementation issues in mind so that there is a clear understanding of what is realizable and what is not. It is therefore equally important to create a framework to determine if today’s advanced algorithms can be rapidly implemented in CMOS.