Spread Spectrum Technologies

Spread Spectrum
Technologies
(1 September, 2006)
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Objectives
Upon completion of this chapter you will be able to:
● Define spread spectrum technologies and how

they are used
● Describe modulation and the different data rates
● Explain and compare FHSS, DSSS and OFDM
● List the factors that impact signal throughput and
range

Spread Spectrum
● Spread spectrum is a communication technique that
spreads a narrowband communication signal over a wide range
of frequencies for transmission then de-spreads it into the
original data bandwidth at the receive.
● Spread spectrum is characterized by:
✔ wide bandwidth and
✔ low power
● Jamming and interference have less effect on Spread
spectrum because it is:
✔ Resembles noise
✔ Hard to detect
✔Hard to intercept
Narrowband vs Spread Spectrum
Narrowband
(High Peak Power)
Power
Spread Spectrum
(Low Peak Power)
Frequency

Narrow Band vs Spread Spectrum
● Narrow Band
✔ Uses only enough frequency spectrum to carry the signal
✔ High peak power
✔ Easily jammed
● Spread Spectrum
✔ The bandwidth is much wider than required to send to the
signal.
✔ Low peak power
✔Hard to detect
✔Hard to intercept
✔ Difficult to jam
Spread Spectrum Use
● In the 1980s FCC implemented a set of rules making Spread
Spectrum available to the public.
✔ Cordless Telephones
✔ Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
✔ Cell Phones
✔ Personal Communication Systems
✔ Wireless video cameras
● Local Area Networks

✔ Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)
✔ Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)
✔ Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN)
✔ Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN)
FCC Specifications
● The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 15 originally
only described two spread spectrum techniques to be used in
the licensed free Industrial, Scientific, Medical (ISM) band,
2.4 GHz, thus 802.11 and 802.11b.
✔ Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) and
✔ Direct Sequence spread Spectrum (DSSS)
● Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) was

not covered by the CFR and would have required licensing.
✔ 802.11a, employing OFDM, was created to work in the 5GHz
Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (UNII)
● In May, 2001 CFR, Part 15 was modified to allow alternative

"digital modulation techniques".
✔ This resulted in 802.11g which employs OFDM in the 2.4
GHz range
Wireless LAN Networks
● Wireless LANs RF spread spectrum management techniques
✔ Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS).
☛ Operates in the 2.4 Ghz range
☛ Rapid frequency switching – 2.5 hops per second w/ a dwell time of 400ms.
☛ A predetermined pseudorandom pattern
☛ Fast Setting frequency synthesizers.
✔ Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
☛ Operates in the 2.4 GHz range
☛ Digital Data signal is inserted into a higher data rate chipping code.
❋ A Chipping code is a bit sequence consisting of a redundant bit pattern.
❋ Barker, Gold, M-sequence and Kasami codes are employed
✔ Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM)
☛ Operates in both the 5 Ghz and 2.4 GHz range with a data rate of between 6
and 54 Mbps.
☛ 802.11a divides each channel into 52 low-speed sub-channels
✽ 48 sub-channels are for data while the other 4 are pilot carriers.
☛ The modulation scheme can be either BPSK, QPSK or QAM depending
upon the speed of transmission.
FCC Radio Spectrum
Band Name Range Usage
VLF 10 kHz - 30 kHz Cable Locating Equipment
LF 30 kHz - 300 kHz Maritime Mobile Service.
MF 300 kHz - 3 MHz Aircraft navigation, ham radio and
Avalanche transceivers.
HF 3 MHz - 30 MHz CB radios, CAP, Radio telephone,
and Radio Astronomy.
VHF 30 MHz - 328.6 MHZ Cordless phones, Televisions, RC
Cars, Aircraft, police and business radios.
UHF 328.6 MHz - 2.9 GHz police radios, fire radios, business
radios, cellular phones, GPS, paging,
wireless networks and cordless phones.
SHF 2.9 GHz - 30 GHz Doppler weather radar, satellite
communications.
EHF 30 GHz and above Radio astronomy, military systems,
vehicle radar systems, ham radio.
ISM Frequency Bands
UHF ISM 902 - 928 Mhz
S-Band 2 - 4 Ghz
S-Band ISM (802.11b) 2.4 - 2.5 Ghz

C-Band 4 - 8 Ghz
C-Band Satellite downlink 3.7 - 4.2Ghz
C-Band Radar (weather) 5.25 - 5.925 Ghz
C-Band ISM (802.11a) 5.725 - 5.875 Ghz

C-Band satellite uplink 5.925-6.425 Ghz
X-Band 8-12 Ghz
X-Band Radar (police/weather) 9.5-10.55 Ghz
Ku-band 12-18 Ghz
Ku-band Radar (Police) 13.5-15 Ghz
15.7-17.7 Ghz
ISM - Industrial, Scientific and Medical
FHSS

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
● Carrier changes frequency (HOPS)
according to a pseudorandom Sequence.
✔ Pseudorandom sequence is a list of frequencies. The
carrier hops through this lists of frequencies.
✔ The carrier then repeats this pattern.
✔ During Dwell Time the carrier remains at a certain
frequency.
✔ During Hop Time the carrier hops to the next frequency.
✔ The data is spread over 83 MHz in the 2.4 GHz ISM
band.
✔ This signal is resistant but not immune to narrow band
interference.
Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum
An Example of a Co-located Frequency Hopping System
Transmission Frequency (GHz)
2.479
1 MHz Channels
Divided into 79
2.401
200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600

Elapsed Time in Milliseconds (ms)
Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 78

FHSS Contd
● The original 802.11 FHSS standard supports 1 and
2 Mbps data rate.
✔ FHSS uses the 2.402 – 2.480 GHz frequency range in the ISM band.
✔ It splits the band into 79 non-overlapping channels with each channel
1 MHz wide.
✔ FHSS hops between channels at a minimum rate of 2.5 times per
second. Each hop must cover at least 6 MHz
✔The hopping channels for the US and Europe are shown below.

FHSS Contd
● Dwell Time
✔ The Dwell time per frequency is around 100 ms
(The FCC specifies a dwell time of 400 ms per carrier
frequency in any 30 second time period).
✔ Longer dwell time = greater throughput.

✔ Shorter dwell time = less throughput
● Hop Time
✔ Is measured in microseconds (us) and is
generally around 200-300 us.

FHSS Contd
● Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying
✔ The FHSS Physical sublayer modulates the data stream using
Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK).
✔ Each symbol, a zero and a one, is represented by a different
frequency (2 level GFSK)
✔ two symbols can be represented by four frequencies (4 level
GFSK).
✔ A Gaussian filter smoothes the abrupt jumps between
frequencies.
00 01 11 10
fc – fd2 fc - fd1 fc + fd1 fc + fd2

fc
FHSS Disadvantages
● Not as fast as a wired Lan or the newer WLAN

Standards
● Lower throughput due to interference.
✔FHSS is subject to interference from other frequencies in
the ISM band because it hops across the entire frequency
spectrum.
● Adjacent FHSS access points can synchronize

their hopping sequence to increase the number of co-
located systems, however, it is prohibitively
expensive.

DSSS

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
● Spread spectrum increases the bandwidth of the signal
compared to narrow band by spreading the signal.
● There are two major types of spread spectrum techniques:
FHSS and DSSS.
✔ FHSS spreads the signal by hopping from one frequency to
another across a bandwidth of 83 Mhz.
✔ DSSS spreads the signal by adding redundant bits to the
signal prior to transmission which spreads the signal across 22
Mhz.
☛ The process of adding redundant information to the signal
is called Processing Gain .
☛ The redundant information bits are called Pseudorandom
Numbers (PN).
Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
● DSSS works by combining information bits (data signal) with
higher data rate bit sequence (pseudorandom number (PN)).
● The PN is also called a Chipping Code (eg., the Barker chipping
code)
●The bits resulting from combining the information bits with the
chipping code are called chips - the result- which is then
transmitted.
☛ The higher processing gain (more chips) increases the signal's
resistance to interference by spreading it across a greater number of
frequencies.
☛ IEEE has set their minimum processing gain to 11. The number
of chips in the chipping code equates to the signal spreading ratio.
☛ Doubling the chipping speed doubles the signal spread and the
required bandwidth.
Signal Spreading
✔The Spreader employs an encoding scheme (Barker or

Complementary Code Keying (CCK).
✔ The spread signal is then modulated by a carrier employing either
Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying (DBPSK), or Differential
Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK).
✔ The Correlator reverses this process in order to recover the original
data.
DSSS Channels
● Fourteen channels are identified, however, the FCC specifies only 11
channels for non-licensed (ISM band) use in the US.
● Each channels is a contiguous band of frequencies 22 Mhz wide with
each channel separated by 5 MHz.
✔ Channel 1 = 2.401 – 2.423 (2.412 plus/minus 11 Mhz).
✔ Channel 2 = 2.406 – 2.429 (2.417 plus/minus 11 Mhz).
● Only Channels 1, 6 and 11 do not overlap

Spectrum Mask
● A spectrum Mask represents the maximum power output for the
channel at various frequencies.
● From the center channel frequency, ± 11 MHz and ± 22 MHZ the signal
must be attenuated 30 dB.
● From the center channel frequency, outside ± 22 MHZ, the signal is
attenuated 50 dB.

DSSS Frequency Assignments
● The Center DSSS frequencies of each channel are only 5 Mhz apart but
each channel is 22 Mhz wide therefore adjacent channels will overlap.
● DSSS systems with overlapping channels in the same physical space
would cause interference between systems.
✔ Co-located DSSS systems should have frequencies which are at least
5 channels apart, e.g., Channels 1 and 6, Channels 2 and 7, etc.
✔ Channels 1, 6 and 11 are the only theoretically non-overlapping
channels.
25 MHz 25 MHz
Channel 1 Channel 11
2.412 GHz
Channel 6 2.462 GHz
2.437 GHz
DSSS Non-overlapping Channels
✔ Each channel is 22 MHz wide. In
order for two bands not to overlap
(interfere), there must be five
channels between them.
P 3 MHz ✔ A maximum of three channels may
be co-located (as shown) without
overlap (interference).
22 MHz
✔ The transmitter spreads the signal
sequence across the 22 Mhz wide
channel so only a few chips will be
impacted by interference.
Channel 1 Channel 6 Channel 11
f
2.401 GHz 2.473 GHz
DSSS
Encoding and Modulation

DSSS Encoding and Modulation
● DSSS (802.11b) employs two types of encoding schemes
and two types of modulation schemes depending upon the
speed of transmission.
● Encoding Schemes
✔Barker Chipping Code: Spreads 1 data bit across 11 redundant
bits at both 1 Mbps and 2 Mbps
✔Complementary Code Keying (CCK):
☛ Maps 4 data bits into a unique redundant 8 bits for 5.5 Mbps
☛ Maps 8 data bits into a unique redundant 8 bits for 11 Mbps.
● Modulation Schemes
✔ Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying (DBPSK): Two phase
shifts with each phase shift representing one transmitted bit.
✔ Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK): Four
phase shifts with each phase shift representing two bits.
DSSS Encoding

Barker Chipping Code
● 802.11 adopted an 11 bit Barker chipping code.
● Transmission.
✔ The Barker sequence, 10110111000, was chosen to spread
each 1 and 0 signal.
☛ The Barker sequence has six 1s and five 0s.
✔ Each data bit, 1 and 0, is modulo-2 (XOR) added to the
eleven bit Barker sequence.
☛ If a one is encoded all the bits change.
☛ If a zero is encoded all bits stay the same.
● Reception.
✔A zero bit corresponds to an eleven bit sequence of six 1s.
✔A one bit corresponds to an eleven bit sequence of six 0s.
Barker Sequence
Chipping Code
(Barker Sequence) 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
10110111000
Original Data 1 0
One Bit One Bit
Spread Data
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 0
Six 0s = 1 Six 1s = 0

Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Contd

Complementary Code Keying (CCK)
● Barker encoding along with DBPSK and DQPSK modulation

schemes allow 802.11b to transmit data at 1 and 2 Mbps
● Complementary Code Keying (CCK) allows 802.11b to
transmit data at 5.5 and 11 Mbps.
● CCK employs an 8 bit chipping code.
✔ The 8 chipping bit pattern is generated based upon the
data to be transmitted.
☛ At 5.5 Mbps, 4 bits of incoming data is mapped into a
unique 8 bit chipping pattern.
☛ At 11 Mbps, 8 bits of data is mapped into a unique 8
bit chipping pattern.

Complementary Code Keying (CCK) Contd
● To transmit 5.5 Mbps 4 data bits is mapped into 8 CCK chipping bits..
● The unique 8 chipping bits is determined by the bit pattern of the 4
data bits to be transmitted. The data bit pattern is:
✔ b0, b1, b2, b3
✔ b2 and b3 determine the unique pattern of the 8 bit CCK chipping
code.
Note: j represents the imaginary number, sqrt(-1), and appears on the imaginary
or quadrature axis of the complex plane.

●To transmit 5.5 Mbps 4 data bits is mapped into 8 CCK chipping bits..
●The unique 8 chipping bits is determined by the bit pattern of the 4 data
bits to be transmitted. The data bit pattern is:
✔ b0, b1, b2, b3
✔ b0 and b1 determine the DQPSK phase rotation that is to be
applied to the chip sequence.
✔ Each phase change is relative to the last chip transmitted.

● To transmit 11 Mbps 8 data bits is mapped into 8

CCK chipping bits.
● The unique 8 chipping bits is determined by the
bit pattern of the 8 data bits to be transmitted. The
data bit pattern is:
✔ b0, b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6 ,b7
✔ b2, b3, b4 ,b5, b6 and b7 selects one unique
pattern of the 8 bit CCK chipping code out of 64
possible sequences.
✔ b0 and b1 are used to select the phase rotation
sequence.
DSSS
Modulation

Differential Binary Phase Shift Keying (DBPSK)
Previous
carrier symbol
0 Phase
✔A Zero phase shift from the
Shift
previous symbol is interpreted as
a 0.
180 degree
✔A 180 degree phase shift from Phase Shift
the previous symbol is interpreted
as a 1.
180 degree
Phase Shift

Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (DQPSK)
Previous
carrier symbol
✔A Zero phase shift from the previous 0 Phase
symbol is interpreted as a 00. Shift
✔A 90 degree phase shift from the previous 90 Phase
symbol is interpreted as a 01. Shift
✔A 180 degree phase shift from the previous
180 Phase
symbol is interpreted as a 11.
Shift
✔A 270 degree phase shift from the previous 270 Phase
symbol is interpreted as a 10.
Shift

DSSS Summary
Data Rate Encoding Modulation
1 Barker Coding 11 chips encoding 1 bit DBPSK
2 Barker Coding 11 chips encoding 1 bit DQPSK
5.5 CCK Coding 8 chips encode 8 bits DQPSK
11 CCK Coding 8 chips encode 4 bits DQPSK

FHSS vs DSSS
● DSSS is more susceptible to narrow band noise.

✔ DSSS channel is 22 Mhz wide whereas
✔ FHSS is 79 Mhz wide.
● The FCC regulated that DSSS use a maximum of 1 watt
of transmitter power in Pt-to-Multipoint system.
● DSSS costs less then FHSS
● FHSS can have more systems co-located than
DSSS.
✔ DSSS systems have the advantage in throughput
● The Wi-Fi alliance tests for DSSS compatibility
✔ No such testing alliance exists for FHSS.
FHSS vs DSSS contd
● DSSS generally has a throughput of 5-6 Mbps

while FHSS is generally between 1-2 Mbps.
● Both FHSS and DHSS are equally insecure.
● DSSS has gained much wider acceptance due to
its low cost, high speed and interoperability.
✔This market acceptance is expected to
accelerate.
✔ FHSS advancement includes HomeRF and 802.15
(WPAN) (Bluetooth), however, it is expected to not
advance into the enterprise.

Co-location Comparison
54 Mbps OFDM
40 3 Mbps FHSS (sync.)

11 Mbps DSSS
30
Date Rate in Mbps
20 3 Mbps FHSS (no sync.)
10
1 5 10 15 20
Number of Co-located Systems
OFDM

802.11a
● IEEE 802.11a Standard.
✔ Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM).
✔ Operates in the 5.0 GHz band.
✔ It Operates in the Unlicensed National Information
Infrastructure (UNII).
✔ 200 channels ( channels 1-199) spaced 5 MHz apart.
✔ Supported data rates are 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 54,
MBps.
✔ 6, 12, and 24 are mandatory. All others are optional.
✔ 75-80 Feet
✔ 64 users /Access Point
802.11a Network Channel Assignments
Area Frequency Band Channel Center Frequency
USA U-NII Lower Band 36 5.180 Ghz
(5.150-5.250 Ghz) 40 5.200 Ghz
44 5.220 Ghz
48 5.240 Ghz
USA U-NII Middle Band 52 5.260 Ghz
(5.250 – 5.350 Ghz) 56 5.260 Ghz
60 5.280 Ghz
64 5.320 Ghz
USA U-NII Upper Band 149 5.745 Gh
(5.725 – 5.825) 153 5.765 Ghz
157 5.785 Ghz
161 5.805 Ghz
NOTE: 1. U-NII : Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure.
2. 802.11a is specific to the US.

OFDM
● A mathematical process that allows 52 channels to overlap without
losing their orthogonality (individuality).
✔ 48 sub-channel are used for data
✒ Each sub-channel is used to transmit data
✔ 4 sub-channel are used as pilot carriers.
✒ The pilot sub-channels are used to monitor path shift and

shifts in sub-channel frequencies (Inter Carrier Interference
(ICI)).
✔OFDM selects channels that
overlap but do not interfere
OFDM with one another.
✔Channels are separated based
upon orthogonality.

802.11a Channels
● 802.11a use the lower and middle UNII 5 GHz bands to create 8 channels.
✔ Each Channel is 20 MHz each.
✔ Each channel is broken into 52 sub-channels with each sub-channel
300 KHz each.
☛ 48 Sub-channels are used to transmit data
☛ 4 sub-channels are used as Pilot carriers to monitor the channel
52
Sub-Channels
Each channel is
for each 8
20 MHz wide
channels
8 Lower and
Channels Middle UNII
frequency band
Lower UNII Band Middle UNII Band

OFDM
Modulation

Modulation Background
● In order to properly understand OFDM modulation we need to do
a quick review of various modulation techniques.
✔ James Clark Maxwell, 1864, first developed the idea that
electromagnetic magnetic waves arose as a combination electric
current and magnetic field – an electromagnetic wave.
✔ Heinrich Hertz , in 1880s, developed the first Radio
Frequency device that sent and received electromagnetic waves
over the air
☛ The name Hertz (Hz) was given to the unit of frequency
measurement representing one complete oscillation of an
electromagnetic wave. This is also called cycle per second.
☛ Kilohertz = thousands of cycles per second
☛ Megahertz = millions of cycles per second
☛ Gigahertz = billions cycles per second
Modulation Background Contd
● The oscillating electromagnetic wave, also called a sine wave, is shown below.
● This wave can be used as a carrier signal to carry information.
● The information can be imposed upon the carrier through a process called
modulation which is accomplished by modifying one of three physical wave
characteristic. These physical characteristics are:
✔ Amplitude – The height of the wave
✔ Frequency – the number of oscillation (cycles) per second.
✔ Phase – the starting point of the wave (when compared to the starting point of
the previous wave.
● The are two major types of modulation schemes: Analog and Digital
Frequency
Sine Wave
Amplitude
Phase

Analog Modulation
✔Amplitude Modulation varies the
height of the carrier wave.
Change in
Amplitude
✔Frequency Modulation varies the
number of oscillation (waves) per
second
Change in
Frequency
✔Phase Modulation changes the
starting point of the wave.
Change in 1 = 1800 Phase Change

Phase 0 = No Phase Change

Digital Modulation
✔Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)
changes the amplitude of the carrier
wave to represent a 0 or 1.
✔Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)

changes the frequency of the carrier
wave to represent a 0 or 1.
✔Phase Shift Keying (PSK) changes

the phase of the carrier wave to
represent a 0 or 1.
1 = 1800 Phase Change
0 = No Phase Change
180 degree
phase change

Phase Modulation Extended
✔Phase Modulation changes

the starting point of the wave.
Change in 1 = 1800 Phase Change

Phase 0 = No Phase Change
900
✔Phase shift can also be represented on an x/y axis BPSK

constellation such that:
1 = 1800 Phase Change ( π radians) 1 0

180o 0o
0 = No Phase Change
✔In this instance we can transmit 1 bit for every phase
1 = 1800 Phase Change ( π radians)
0 = No Phase Change
shift.
✔This is called Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) in
2700
802.11a

QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (QAM)
2 bits/phase
900
01 00
✔ Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) 135o 35o

extends this technique to transmit two bits for QPSK
every phase shift. 180o 0o

01 = 1350 Phase Change 225o 315o
11 10
2700

4 bits/phase
900
✔Quadrature Amplitude Modulation QAM
0010
(QAM) generalizes these techniques to 0110
0111
encode information in both phase (by 0001
0100 0101 0011
employing PSK techniques such as BPSK
0000
and QPSK) with amplitude. 180o 0o
✔ For example, in the diagram a right, each

1100 1111 1001 1000
quadrature contains 4 amplitudes (16 levels)
and can therefore transmit 4 bits per phase. 1101 1110 1010 1011
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QAM Extended
900
✔In the diagram at right, each

quadrature contains 8 amplitudes (64
levels) and can therefore transmit 6 bits
per phase.
180o 0o
2700
Summary of OFDM Encoding/Modulation
✔ 64 Phase shifts can encode 6 bits /phase shift resulting is a transmission rate of
either 48 or 54 Mbps depending upon the number of sub-channels (R) used for error
correction.
✔ Coding Rate (R) is the ratio of sub-channels carrying data to sub-channels
carrying error correction code. E.G., 1/2 would indicate that 24 sub-channels (1/2 X
48 = 24) are being used for error correction while the remaining 24 sub-channels are
used for data transmission.
✔ The Length of the each Symbol is equal to number of sub-carriers times the
bits /transition. e.g., 48 X 6 = 288.

Summary of OFDM Encoding/Modulation

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● Define spread spectrum technologies and how

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● Local Area Networks

● Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) was

● In May, 2001 CFR, Part 15 was modified to allow alternative

S-Band ISM (802.11b) 2.4 - 2.5 Ghz

C-Band ISM (802.11a) 5.725 - 5.875 Ghz

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200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600

Channel 1 Channel 2 Channel 78

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✔ Longer dwell time = greater throughput.

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fc – fd2 fc - fd1 fc + fd1 fc + fd2

● Not as fast as a wired Lan or the newer WLAN

● Adjacent FHSS access points can synchronize

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✔The Spreader employs an encoding scheme (Barker or

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Channel 1 Channel 6 Channel 11

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● Barker encoding along with DBPSK and DQPSK modulation

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● To transmit 11 Mbps 8 data bits is mapped into 8

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● DSSS is more susceptible to narrow band noise.

● DSSS generally has a throughput of 5-6 Mbps

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40 3 Mbps FHSS (sync.)

20 3 Mbps FHSS (no sync.)

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✒ Each sub-channel is used to transmit data

✔ 4 sub-channel are used as pilot carriers.

✒ The pilot sub-channels are used to monitor path shift and

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Lower UNII Band Middle UNII Band

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Change in 1 = 1800 Phase Change

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✔Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)

✔Phase Shift Keying (PSK) changes

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✔Phase Modulation changes

Change in 1 = 1800 Phase Change

✔Phase shift can also be represented on an x/y axis BPSK

1 = 1800 Phase Change ( π radians) 1 0

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