Statistical multiplexing based hybrid FH-OFDMA system for OFDM-based UWB indoor radio access networks

We propose a statistical multiplexing based hybrid frequency hopping orthogonal frequency division multiple access (HFH-OFDMA) system to increase the downlink user capacity of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor radio access networks (RANs). Downlink user capacity is defined as the maximum allowable number of users served with a given data rate in a piconet. The HFH-OFDMA system accommodates more users than the conventional FH-OFDMA system by using statistical multiplexing. In OFDM based UWB indoor RANs, the downlink user capacity of the HFH-OFDMA system is limited by either the total number of available subcarriers in a piconet (resource limited) or FCC UWB emission limit (power limited). Simulation results show that the proposed HFH-OFDMA system which operates in 3.168 GHz /spl sim/ 3.696 GHz band accommodates 256 users with a data rate of 532.5 kb/s in OFDM based UWB indoor RANs.