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The Hidden Cost of Overhead in MIMO Wireless LANs

Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communication, enabled by the presence of multiple transmit and receive antennas in the communication link, is a physical layer technology that can improve throughput in WLANs. Unfortunately, the cost of MIMO in terms of additional overhead, is often overlooked. In this paper the impact of overhead on MAC throughput is evaluated, using representative physical and MAC models. Several different MIMO configurations including spatial multiplexing, concurrent transmit and receive beam forming, and receiver interference cancellation are compared in terms of their saturation throughput.


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