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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2011)

Published: December 31, 2011

Pages: 120-124

Original Article

Performance Evaluation of Downlink WiMAX System in Vicinity of UWB System

Maan A. S. Al-Adwany 1
1Department of Computer & Information Engineering, College of Electronics Engineering University of Mosul Mosul, Iraq
History
  • Received: October 31, 2011
  • Available Online: December 31, 2011
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.7.2.6

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of WiMAX downlink system in vicinity of UWB system. The study is achieved via simulating a scenario of an office building which utilizes from both WiMAX and UWB appliances. From the simulation results, we found that WiMAX system is largely affected by the UWB interference. However, in order to overcome the interference problem and achieve reasonable BER (Bit Error Rate) of 10 -4 , we found that it is very necessary to raise the WiMAX transmitted power in relative to that of UWB interferer. So, the minimum requirements for WiMAX system to overcome UWB interference are stated here in this work.

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