CSIRO Australia

ICT Centre

Adaptive Wireless Sphere Decoder Implementation

Location: Marsfield, NSW

Supervisor: Iain Collings and Hajime Suzuki

Project description:

Within the ICT Centre, we are developing techniques to improve the spectrum efficiency of future WLAN systems. A key aspect of the project is the ability to code and decode data in real environments, at future high data rates and over future bandwidth constrained channels. The goal of this student vacation project is to implement one of the exciting candidate codingdecoding algorithms, and test its performance over real channels. The project links the theory of advanced digital communication systems to the real-world of RF multipath multiuser communication channels.

The project will produce:

  • A new implementation of an exciting algorithm which will be incorporated into the existing CSIRO Adaptive Wireless WLAN hardware demonstration platform.

  • Analysis of the achievable data-rates in different channel environments.

  • Proposals for improvements to the algorithm on the basis of the analysis. It may be, for example, that the algorithms need to be tailored to different types of environments.

  • This will involve working with the researchers who have been developing algorithms.

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  • It is also possible that the student may develop improved measurement techniques and/or improved software for presentation of results.

The above will be consolidated in a final report and presentation.

What is the vacation scholar going to learn through this project?

Many students in this area have good experience in computer simulation and modelling; this project will allow them to translate that theory to real-world measurements in different typical environments. It will also allow them to feed back the real measurements into the theory and assist in the development of better algorithms. In working with the CSIRO Adaptive Wireless researchers, the student will see the scope of a complex project and the range of skills required.

Skills:

  • Signal processing & digital communication systems knowledge

  • Some experience in DSP hardware and programming

For further information re this project e-mail:
 Iain Collings or Hajime Suzuki

Undergraduate Information

Last updated 29/08/06 - Yvonne.Preston@csiro.au