Hi Patrick: Good paper, but the claims of NLOS are exactly as I thought they would be. Significant multi-path enviroments which have strong signals, such as offices or dense urban spaces. I didn't see any claims of the signal being able to burrow through an isolated hill on a long distance/weak signal path in a rural area just because it is using OFDM.
None-the-less, there still may be an advantage for signal limited long distance applications. You might want to go back to the author and have them add a section about Fresnel zones (which itself is multipath/signal cancelation). I'm not sure OFDM would help there, but suspect it might depending on if we are looking at bit smear or waves 180 degrees out of phase. Then if you could prove this, you'd have a paper you could universally apply to the long distance suburban/rural operator as well as the urban hot spot/office crowd (which is all it addresses now). Quoting Patrick Leary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I promised this group a link to a forthcoming OFDM white paper. I > don't > suppose any who are familar with OFDM will see anything new, but maybe > it > will be helpful to same...and plus, I promised it. It is the first one > listed. It is not brand specific, in fact, the only place our name can > be > found is in one footnote and on the logo on the title page. > http://www.alvarion-usa.com/RunTime/Materials/KnowledgePoolFiles/Alvarion%20 > OFDM%20Overview%20v1.01.pdf > > Kind regards, > > Patrick Leary > Alvarion -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
