Joint application of STBC and RAKE receivers in multipath Rayleigh fading channels

  • Authors:
  • Szu-Chi Wang;Wei-Sen Lin;Hsiao-Hwa Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan, Taiwan;Institute of Communications Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung city, Taiwan;Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Communications Letters
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This letter investigates the issues on joint application of STBC systems and RAKE receivers in a CDMA system. We show the advantages of using STBC-RAKE receivers in multipath Rayleigh fading channels via error probability analysis and extensive computer simulations. Specifically, this study leads to a better understanding of the interplay between spatial diversity by STBC and multipath diversity via RAKE receivers.