STC-MIMO block spread OFDM in frequency selective rayleigh fading channels

Authors

Le Chung Tran, University of WollongongFollow
Xiaojing Huang, University of WollongongFollow
E. Dutkiewicz, University of WollongongFollow
Joe F. Chicharo, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

31133

Publication Details

This article was originally published as: Tran, LC, Huang, X, Dutkiewicz, E & Chicharo, J, STC-MIMO Block Spread OFDM in Frequency Selective Rayleigh Fading Channels, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC '06), 26-29 June 2006, 277-282. Copyright IEEE 2006.

Abstract

In this paper, we expand the idea of spreading the transmitted symbols in OFDM systems by unitary spreading matrices based on the rotated Hadamard or rotated Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) matrices proposed in the literature to apply to Space-Time Coded Multiple-Input Multiple- Output OFDM (STC-MIMO-OFDM) systems. We refer the resulting systems to as STC-MIMO Block Spread OFDM (STC-MIMO-BOFDM) systems. In the proposed systems, a multi-dimensional diversity, including time, frequency, space and modulation diversities, can be used, resulting in better bit error performance in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channels compared to the conventional OFDM systems with or without STCs. Simulations carried out with the Alamouti code confirm the advantage of the proposed STC-MIMO-BOFDM systems.