Comments on "Maximum diversity in single-carrier frequency-domain Equalization"

  • Authors:
  • Wei Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It was claimed in the above correspondence that "single-carrier frequency-domain equalization (SC-FDE) is capable of collecting full multipath diversity even without channel coding." However, this is not correct because Proposition 2 and Theorem 1 of the above correspondence, which lead to the claim, are both incorrect. In this correspondence, Proposition 2 and Theorem 1 are disproved. As a consequence, the main claim of the above correspondence is denied. Furthermore, a new theorem is given to show that the multipath diversity cannot be achieved by SC-FDE without channel coding. An example is also presented to disprove the main claim of of the above correspondence meanwhile supporting the new theorem proposed in this correspondence