A Simulation Study of the LTE Interference on WiFi Signal Detection

Published

January 6, 2016

Author(s)

Yao Ma, Daniel G. Kuester, Jason B. Coder, William F. Young

Abstract

To address the spectrum scarcity problem and enhance spectrum utilization efficiency, spectrum sharing and coexistence of different wireless communication systems are important ongoing research topics. Unlicensed use of the ISM band by the long-term evolution (LTE) wireless cellular system is expected to bring large performance enhancement to users of LTE, but its coexistence with incumbent Wi-Fi users must be carefully considered. In this paper, we implement a simulation-based study to investigate the effect of LTE interference on an IEEE 802.11a system, in terms of physical-layer packet error rate (PER) and throughput. Simulation results show that considered LTE interference waveform generates colored-noise like effect on Wi-Fi receivers, and is less harmful on Wi-Fi detection performance than full-band white noise given the same power.

Proceedings Title

USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting

Conference Dates

January 6-9, 2016

Conference Location

Boulder, CO

Conference Title

Same as above

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

LTE, Wi-Fi, System Coexistence, Interference Measurement.

Citation

Ma, Y. , Kuester, D. , Coder, J. and Young, W. (2016), A Simulation Study of the LTE Interference on WiFi Signal Detection, USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=919536 (Accessed October 28, 2025)