Novel diversity combining in OFDM-based MIMO systems

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Pierre Dubois;Omar Abdul-Latif

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Balamand, El Koura, Lebanon;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • MATH'08 Proceedings of the American Conference on Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the performance of a novel diversity combining technique, termed root-mean-square diversity combining (RMSGC), for OFDM transmission over flat Rayleigh fading channels in MIMO systems in the presence of co-channel interference (CCI). Prior published results on BPSK transmission over SIMO channels using ML-detected RMSGC diversity signal showed superior bit error rate performance to classical EGC, SC, SLC diversity combining schemes. In addition, the performance of RMSGC was previously shown to be near-optimal in the sense that it was very close to that of the optimal, but complicated and in many cases non-practical, MRC. While this proved to be a very promising technique for fading channels, it suffered from CCI and its performance deteriorated for more than 8 antennas. In this work, we overcame this drawback and showed that CCI can be resolved using RMSGC-combined and ML-detected OFDM-driven MIMO systems. The performance was further improved using SVM detection, which was also successfully tested in previous work.