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mimo@ee.ucla.edu |
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UCLA MIMO-OFDM Overview Presentation
Non-Engineer's Intro to MIMO &
OFDM
Noting the tremendous advancements by
researchers in the theoretical development of MIMO and space-time
systems in general. The UCLA approach is a unique highly practical
multidisciplinary approach specifically targeted at identifying and
solving unique challenges associated with the actual implementation
and realization of MIMO systems. The ultimate goal of the program is
to develop a complete 8x8 real-time MIMO OFDM testbed system in 2006.
The testbed will be built around unique VLSI ASICs developed as part
the same research and will be capable of achieving throughput rates of
1 Gbps. As such the work is extremely practical in nature and consists
of three main tracks as follows:
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MIMO System Design
- Algorithmic development for an end to
end system
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MIMO OFDM
Testbed Development
- Three phase approach that starts with
a non real-time SDR based approach and culminates in the Gbps 8x8
system. The testbeds will be used to validate (or disprove)
theoretical results, and to establish the practical bounds on
system performance.
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VLSI system research
- Investigate and develop novel VLSI
architectures that can deliver the 100's of GOPS of processing
power, required by broadband MIMO systems, with extreme power
efficiency.
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Historical Note
MIMO research at UCLA was
first carried out by the wireless integrated systems (WISR) group in
1999 with funding by the DARPA NGI program. The scope of the initial
program was to investigate single carrier, DFE based, MIMO systems.
Since 2001 we have been focused entirely on OFDM based MIMO systems.
This work is for the most part supported by the ONR AINS program with
other funding from industry and the NSF. |
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