3rd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

On the Impact of CFO for OFDM Systems with Un-equal Gain Diversity Schemes over Small-term Fading

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562552,
        author={Joy Iong-Zong Chen and Chin-Chung Yu and You-Fu Chung and Shi-Han Yan},
        title={On the Impact of CFO for OFDM Systems with Un-equal Gain Diversity Schemes over Small-term Fading},
        proceedings={3rd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={7},
        keywords={OFDM; SC (selection combining; Weibull fading; CFO (carrier frequency offset)},
        doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562552}
    }
    
  • Joy Iong-Zong Chen
    Chin-Chung Yu
    You-Fu Chung
    Shi-Han Yan
    Year: 2008
    On the Impact of CFO for OFDM Systems with Un-equal Gain Diversity Schemes over Small-term Fading
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2008.4562552
Joy Iong-Zong Chen1,*, Chin-Chung Yu1, You-Fu Chung1,*, Shi-Han Yan1,*
  • 1: Department of Communications Engineering Dayeh University Chunghua, Taiwan
*Contact email: jchen@mail.dyu.edu.tw, r9512034@mail.dyu.edu.tw, r9512032@mail.dyu.edu.tw

Abstract

The system performance of OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) with dual branch SC (selection combining) diversity over small scale fading correlated channel is investigated in this paper. The performance of average BER (bit error rate) of the OFDM system is calculated by adopting the results with an alternative expression of the Q-function. The correlated-Weibull fading distribution is applied to characterize the propagation fading channel. Moreover, the assumption of CFO (carrier frequency offset) existing between subcarrier is other scenario considered in this paper. It is worthwhile noting that the system performance of an OFDM system with SC diversity is definitely dominated by transmission environments, that is, except fading parameters (of Weibull distribution) of fading statistics will be the most important reason to decide whether the system performance of an OFDM system is well or not, the CFO is another phaneoman affects the performance too. Furthermore, both of equal and unequal branch gain of the received waveform at the output of SC diversities is assumed in the discussion for OFDM communication systems.