Mitsuhiro Azuma

Demonstration experiment of millimeter wave multi-gigabit wireless LAN system

We have developed a new 60-GHz band millimeter wave multi-gigabit wireless local area network (WLAN) system that achieves a throughput of more than 1 Gbps. The developed system consists of high-gain eight-sector antenna, physical layer (PHY) for orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDM) modulation/demodulation, and media access control (MAC) for time and space resource control on point to multi-point (P-MP) communication. The performance of the developed system was evaluated in a room environment. As a result, we confirmed that developed system achieves a high throughput, which exceeds considerably that of current microwave-band WLAN systems based on IEEE802.11.

A Low-Complexity Turbo Equalizer for OFDM Communication Systems

With the growing demand for mobile communications, multicarrier (MC) schemes are receiving an increasing amount of attention, primarily because they handle frequency selective channels better than ordinary single-carrier schemes. However, despite offering several advantages, MC systems have certain weak points. One is their high sensitivity to interchannel interference (ICI). The influence of Doppler shift and ICI are the focus of this paper. Newly proposed B3G/4G systems are developed for data transmission rates higher than those of the IEEE 801.11 It is then necessary that the bandwidth of the subcarrier be small. Moreover, for a higher carrier frequency and mobile speed, the influence of the Doppler shift will be large; therefore, the influence of ICI becomes severer. Using a Markov chain approach, we synthesized a turbo equalizer (TE) that minimizes ICI when interference affects the arbitrary number M of adjacent subchannels. This approach shows the complexity of the proposed algorithm exhibits linear growth with respect to M and independence with respect to the total number of subchannels in the multicarrier system. The proposed ICI cancellation scheme can also be effective in the case of multiple Doppler frequency offsets. This makes the proposed approach attractive for practical implementations.