Measurement, Modeling, and OFDM Synchronization for the Wideband Mobile-to-Mobile Channel

• Main Author: Acosta-Marum, Guillermo
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2007
• Subjects: Channel modeling; Channel sounding; Mobile-to-mobile; OFDM synchronization; OFDM sounding; Automobile WLAN; Wireless communication systems; Mobile communication systems; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; Synchronization
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14535

Wideband measurements of the mobile-to-mobile channel, especially of the harshest channels, are necessary for proper design and certification testing of mobile-to-mobile communications systems. A complete measurement implies that the Doppler and delay characteristics are measured jointly. However, such measurements have not previously been published. The main objective of the proposed research is to develop channel models for specific scenarios from data obtained in a wideband mobile-to-mobile measurement campaign in the 5.9 GHz frequency band. For this purpose we developed a channel sounding system including a novel combined waveform. In order to quantify and qualify either the recorded channel or the proposed generated channel, we developed a simulation test-bed that includes all the characteristics of the proposed digital short range communications (DSRC) standard. The resulting channel models needed to comply with the specifications required by hardware channel emulators or software channel simulators. From the obtained models, we selected one to be included in the IEEE 802.11p standard certification test. To further aid in the development of software radio based receivers, we also developed an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) synchronization algorithm to analyze and compensate synchronization errors produced by inaccessible system clocks.