Paper Info
Title
Coverage of 802.11g WLANs in the presence of Bluetooth interference.
Abstract
In this paper, the co-existence issue between IEEE 802.11g wireless-local-area networks (WLANs) and Bluetooth (BT) devices is examined and the use of symbol erasures to reduce the impact of this interference source is proposed. The minimum signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) required by an 802.11g WLAN to achieve a target PER of 0.01 with the number of erasures as a parameter is examined. From these SIR values, the coverage of the WLAN access point (AP) when the wireless station (STA) is being interfered by a BT device is studied. Simulation results show that at a high operational E-b/N-o = 30 dB, the WLAN's maximum coverage reduces by half as the data rate increases from 6 Mbps to 54 Mbps. The use of symbol erasures significantly enhances the coverage from 250% to 900% and from 40%, to 300% when a BT device is 1 m and 10 m away from the sTA, respectively. However, there is a threshold for the number of erasures beyond which further improvements in system performance are not obtained.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/PIMRC.2003.1259070
PIMRC
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bluetooth,OFDM modulation,radiofrequency interference,wireless LAN,6 to 54 Mbit/s,Bluetooth interference,IEEE 802.11g,OFDM modulation,signal-to-interference ratio,symbol erasure,wireless-local-area network
Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Data rate,Interference (wave propagation),Wireless lan,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,IEEE 802.11g-2003,Bluetooth
Conference
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
3
4
0.75
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
K. K. Wong14310.57
Tim O'Farrell231231.99