Frequency-domain turbo equalization for single carrier mobile broadband systems

  • Authors:
  • Liang Dong;Yao Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper investigates mobile broadband communications, which undergo time-varying radio channels with large multipath delay spread. Space-time block transmission and single carrier modulation are adopted at the transmitter to combat the inter-symbol interference resulted from the multipath delay. The single carrier modems with frequency-domain equalization have similar performance and complexity as orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing, yet less sensitive to radio frequency impairments. At the receiver, we propose the Turbo equalization that consists of a minimum mean-square error equalizer in the frequency domain and a channel decoder. In order to cope with the time-varying characteristics of the mobile channel, the received data is partitioned into blocks for the linear equalizer, and then combined as a decoding frame for the decoder. Simulation results show good performance of the proposed scheme with feasible computational complexity.