EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 145279, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/145279
Research Article

OFDM Link Performance Analysis under Various Receiver Impairments

Marco Krondorf and Gerhard Fettweis

Vodafone Chair Mobile Communications Systems, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden D-01062, Germany

Received 8 May 2007; Accepted 11 September 2007

Academic Editor: Hikmet Sari

Copyright © 2008 Marco Krondorf and Gerhard Fettweis. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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