The Fourth Generation Wireless Communications and Beyond

Research Article

Block Spread OFDMA System with Space-Time Coded MIMO over Frequency Selective Fading Channels

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685066,
        author={Yiwei Yu and Xiaojing Huang and Eryk Dutkiewicz},
        title={Block Spread OFDMA System with Space-Time Coded MIMO over Frequency Selective Fading Channels},
        proceedings={The Fourth Generation Wireless Communications and Beyond},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM2008-INDUSTRIAL},
        year={2008},
        month={11},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685066}
    }
    
  • Yiwei Yu
    Xiaojing Huang
    Eryk Dutkiewicz
    Year: 2008
    Block Spread OFDMA System with Space-Time Coded MIMO over Frequency Selective Fading Channels
    CHINACOM2008-INDUSTRIAL
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2008.4685066
Yiwei Yu1,*, Xiaojing Huang1,*, Eryk Dutkiewicz1,*
  • 1: School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522 Australia
*Contact email: yy236@uow.edu.au, huang@uow.edu.au, eryk@uow.edu.au

Abstract

This paper proposes a block spread orthogonal frequency division multiple access (BS-OFDMA) system with a combined space-time coded multiple-input multiple-out (STCMIMO) scheme called STC-MIMO BS-OFDMA for transmission over frequency selective fading channels. In this system, a novel block spreading approach is firstly applied to effectively achieve precoding in the OFDMA system with lower complexity for improving the multipath diversity performance. The STC-MIMO is then incorporated to take advantage of the spatial diversity. The signal model and architecture of the proposed system are presented, and simulations are carried out to confirm the expected performance improvement.