On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:26:26PM -0700, Ladjicke Diouf wrote:
> Can somebody shed some light on how OFDM helps NLOS, I thought it was just
> a coding scheme like DSSS for 802.11b
You still need LOS. OFDM of DSSS will handle interference (ie.
"smearing" ) of the signal better with the lower symbol rate. Things
like multipath will be less of an issue. Still an issue, but less
pronounced.
Tim
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