802.

11b Modulation Scheme

Presented By:
Nishant Divecha

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 Evolution of the 802.11b
Major Problems at the Physical Layer caused
by nature of the chosen media that had to be
addressed in 802.11b
• Bandwidth allocation;
• External interference;
• Reflection.

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The physical layer of the original 802.11
standardized three wireless data exchange
techniques:

• Infrared (IR);
• Frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS);
• Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS).

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Complementary Code Keying

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DSSS Frequency Channel Plan

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 802.11 DSSS Radio Interface
• 1 Mbps 1 Msymbol/s BPSK spread by 11 chip Barker code,
(-4 dB Bandwidth = 11 MHz, main lobe = 22 MHz), IEEE 802.11
• 2 Mbps 1 Msymbol/s QPSK spread by 11 chip Barker code
(-4 dB Bandwidth = 11 MHz, main lobe = 22 MHz), IEEE 802.11
• 5.5 Mbps 2 Msymbol/s QPSK like symbols spread by 8 chip
Complementary Code Keying (CCK). IEEE 802.11b
• 11 Mbps 4 Msymbol/s QPSK like symbols spread by 8 chip
Complementary Code Keying (CCK). IEEE 802.11b
• 54 Mbps OFDM with max. 52 sub-carriers, IEEE 802.11a /
IEEE 802.11g

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1 Mbps (802.11), 1 2 Mbps (802.11), 2 bit/symbol
bit/symbol ; 4 symbol values
2 symbol values
DQPSK ; 11 analog chips
DBPSK, 11 analog chips

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 5.5 Mbps (802.11b) 11 Mbps (802.11b)
4 bit/symbol ; 8 bit/symbol ;
16 symbol values 256 symbol values
DQPSK ; 8 analog DQPSK ; 8 analog chips
chips

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Typical Receiver can operate at 0dB SNR

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