Performance of a real-time wireless embedded system in indoor channel environments

Channel coding is used in wireless digital communication systems to protect the information and reduce the number of bit errors and hence is pivotal in any digital communication system design. Indoor wireless applications have become very popular in this day and age. Proper modeling of the indoor wireless channel is critical to evaluate the performance of the end-to-end system. The main focus of this thesis work was to evaluate the performance of an indoor point-to-point wireless data transmission system with and without channel coding techniques combined with block interleaving in three Indoor Rician channels within the University of Texas at Arlington main campus. The embedded RF system used for testing was designed as part of this thesis, and the relationship between coding gain and channel parameters was evaluated on the basis of field measurements.