Performance evaluation of BLAST-OFDM enhanced Hiperlan/2using simulatedand measured channel data

Abstract

The performance benefits of spatial multiplexing are evaluated for an otherwise unmodified Hiperlan/2 physical layer. To obtain an ‘upper bound’ result, full complexity ML decoding of the V-BLAST OFDM signal is performed. Performance results using statistical multi-element channel models are compared with those using state-of-the-art MIMO channel measurements.