ZTE Communications ›› 2011, Vol. 9 ›› Issue (4): 32-34.

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An Antenna Diversity Scheme for Digital Front-End with OFDM Technology

Fa-Long Luo, Ward Williams, and Bruce Gladstone   

  1. Element CXI, San Jose, CA 95131, USA
  • Online:2011-12-25 Published:2011-12-25
  • About author:Fa-Long Luo (falong.luo@elementcxi.com) is chief scientist at Element CXI. He has been the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting since 2007. Fa-Long Luo is now the chairman of the IEEE Industry DSP Standing Committee and technical board member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has 28 years of research and industry experience in multimedia, communications, and broadcasting with real-time applications and standards. Fa-Log Luo has received worldwide recognition. He has authored and edited 4 books, more than 100 technical papers and 18 patents.

    Ward Williams (ward.williams@elementcxi.com) is vice president of marketing for Element CXI. Ward has broad technology marketing and business development experience in senior management positions. He has worked for companies such as Xilinx, Chips and Systems, S3/SonciBLUE, and Hewlett-Packard. He frequently speaks at international technology shows or forums such as IEEE ICASSP and Global Mobile Congress. His research interests include digital front-end, software-defined radio, single-chip solutions, SoC-based hardware, and software IPs.

    Bruce Gladstone (bruce.gladstone@elementcxi.com) has worked in the semiconductor and EDA industries for over 20 years. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he went to Silicon Valley to work in IC design, applications, and technical marketing positions. Bruce has worked for companies such as AMD, Western Digital, Synopsys, and other companies in California and Japan. As a senior director at Element CXI, he is focused on putting new-generation programmable semiconductors into the next-generation communications products.

An Antenna Diversity Scheme for Digital Front-End with OFDM Technology

Fa-Long Luo, Ward Williams, and Bruce Gladstone   

  1. Element CXI, San Jose, CA 95131, USA
  • 作者简介:Fa-Long Luo (falong.luo@elementcxi.com) is chief scientist at Element CXI. He has been the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting since 2007. Fa-Long Luo is now the chairman of the IEEE Industry DSP Standing Committee and technical board member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has 28 years of research and industry experience in multimedia, communications, and broadcasting with real-time applications and standards. Fa-Log Luo has received worldwide recognition. He has authored and edited 4 books, more than 100 technical papers and 18 patents.

    Ward Williams (ward.williams@elementcxi.com) is vice president of marketing for Element CXI. Ward has broad technology marketing and business development experience in senior management positions. He has worked for companies such as Xilinx, Chips and Systems, S3/SonciBLUE, and Hewlett-Packard. He frequently speaks at international technology shows or forums such as IEEE ICASSP and Global Mobile Congress. His research interests include digital front-end, software-defined radio, single-chip solutions, SoC-based hardware, and software IPs.

    Bruce Gladstone (bruce.gladstone@elementcxi.com) has worked in the semiconductor and EDA industries for over 20 years. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he went to Silicon Valley to work in IC design, applications, and technical marketing positions. Bruce has worked for companies such as AMD, Western Digital, Synopsys, and other companies in California and Japan. As a senior director at Element CXI, he is focused on putting new-generation programmable semiconductors into the next-generation communications products.

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new antenna diversity scheme for OFDM-based wireless communication and digital broadcasting applications. Compared with existing schemes, such as post-fast Fourier transform (FFT), pre-FFT, and polyphase-based filter-bank, the proposed scheme performs optimally and has very low computational complexity. It offers a better compromise between performance, power consumption, and complexity in real-time implementation of the receivers of broadband communication and digital broadcasting systems.

Key words: OFDM, digital front-end, MIMO, cross-layer processing, diversity, antenna

摘要: In this paper, we propose a new antenna diversity scheme for OFDM-based wireless communication and digital broadcasting applications. Compared with existing schemes, such as post-fast Fourier transform (FFT), pre-FFT, and polyphase-based filter-bank, the proposed scheme performs optimally and has very low computational complexity. It offers a better compromise between performance, power consumption, and complexity in real-time implementation of the receivers of broadband communication and digital broadcasting systems.

关键词: OFDM, digital front-end, MIMO, cross-layer processing, diversity, antenna