Chapter 6 Flashcards
After data has been encoded using a chipping method, the transmitter needs to module the signal to create a carrier signal containing the chips for DSSS and HR-DSSS. What where these 2 modulations called?
Differential binary phase shift keying (DBPSK)
Differential quadrature phase shift keying. (DQPSK)
Are FHSS and DSSS backward compatible?
No.
How does Barker Code work? How much damage can be done before the entire sequence fails?
The system converts the 1 bit of data into a series of bits that are referred to as chips.
The chip is created using a Boolean XOR on the data bit and a fixed length bit sequence. The is the barker code.
The sequence of chips is then spread across a wider frequency space.
11 chips are created and use 22 MHz of frequency carrier space.
The receiver then takes the 11 chips and converts them back into data. 9/11 chips can be corrupted and the receiving radio will still be able to interpret the sequence and convert them back into a single data bit.
Each data will have an additional 11 bits of redundancy code added to it.
How does convolutional coding work?
Convolutional coding uses a ratio between the bits transmitted vs. the bits encoded to provide these different levels. The lower the ratio, the less resistant the signal is to interference and the greater the data rate will be.
How does OFDM work at a high level? What does this mean for interference?
52 subcarriers are used per channel to transmit data at lower data rates, but because there are so many subcarriers, overall data rates are higher.
Also, because of the lower subcarrier data rates, delay spread is a smaller percentage of the symbol period, which means that ISI is less likely to occur. OFDM tech is more resistant to the negative effects of multipath.
How large was U-NII-2 extended frequency wise? How many channels? What must it support?
255 MHz wide, and uses 12 channels. Must support DFS.
How many channels did U-NII-1 allow? How wide was this band?
4 20 MHz wide channels and 100 MHz wide.
How many channels did U-NII-2 extended create?
12
How many channels does the 802.11 - 2012 allow in the ISM band?
14 channels. 11 allowed in the US.
How many of the 52 subcarriers are used to send data in OFDM and what are the remaining subcarriers used for?
48 are used to transmit data.
4 others are known as pilot carriers. They are used as a reference for phase and amplitude by the demodulator, allowing the receiver to sync itself as it demodulates the data in the other subcarriers.
How many subcarriers per channel using OFDM? And how wide are the subcarrier’s?
52 subcarriers per channel and each sub carrier is 312.5 KHz wide.
How wide and how many channels did U-NII-2 create? What must AP’s support to use this band?
100 MHz wide. 4 channels. DFS.
How wide is the 5.8 GHz band and what does it span?
150 MHz wide and spans from 5.725 - 5.875
What amendment introduced the use of 256-QAM?
802.11ac
What are the 3 frequency ranges of 802.11 ISM band? How wide are they? What is the name of each band?
902 MHz - 928 MHz (26 MHz wide) (Industrial)
- 4 Ghz - 2.5 GHz (100 MHz wide) (Scientific)
- 725 - 5.875 GHz (150 MHz wide) (Medical)
What are the limiting factors of the 900 MHz ISM band?
Slow throughput
Most of the world actually uses this band for GPS.
Baby monitors and home phones can use this band.
What are the modulation techs that are used with OFDM for the higher data rates?
Quadrature amplitude modulation.
What are the modulation techs that are used with OFDM for the lower data rates?
Binary phase shift keying and quadrature phase shift keying.
What did older chipsets due when delay spread started to effect their performance?
Force itself down to a lower modulation rate and increase its symbol period.
What does delay spread mean?
The delay between the main signal and the reflected signal.
What does Dwell time mean and FHSS? What is the max dwell time in ms? How many sub frequencies are there?
is a defned amount of time that the FHSS system transmits on a specific frequency before it switches to the next frequency in the hop set.
Max dwell time for FHSS is 400 ms per carrier frequency during any 30 second time period.
75 frequencies 1 MHz wide.
What does intersymbol interference mean and what causes it? What spread technology is not easily affected by this and why?
If the delay spread is too great, data from the reflected signal may interfere with the same data stream from the main signal
Spread spectrum systems are not as susceptible to ISI because they spread their signals across a range of frequencies. These various frequencies produce different delays in multipath, such that some wavelengths may be affected by ISI whereas others may not.
What does narrowband transmission mean?
Uses very little bandwidth to transmit the data that it is carrying.
What does processing gain mean?
The task of adding additional, redundant information to the data that is being transmitted.