Absrrucr-In the present paper we investigate receive diversity for OFDM-based broadband communication systems. We consider the use of multiple antennas to combat time-selective fading and OFDM transmission in combination with an appropriate guard interval to suppress intersymbol interference. The receive diversity scheme is located in the frequency-domain and we derive different linear estimators, hereafter referred to as diversity equalizers. We show that the carrier-based solution for the optimum linear MMSE estimatorwhich is the least complex solution that maximizes the overall SNRis the well known maximum ratio combiner (MRC). Furthermore, we present a performance analysis for the proposed diversity equalizers and compare theoretical results to a simulated system which uses channel state information for MRC.
We investigate space-frequency block coding for OFDM systems with multiple transmit antennas, where coding is applied in the frequency domain (OFDM carriers) rather than in the time domain (OFDM symbols). In particular we consider Alamouti's code, which was shown to be the optimum block code for two transmit antennas and time domain coding. We show that the standard decoding algorithm results in significant performance degradation depending on the frequency-selective nature of the transmission channels, such that a low coherence bandwidth results in a huge degradation. The optimum decoding algorithm that alleviates this problem is the maximum-likelihood decoder for joint symbol detection. We present a performance analysis for the investigated space-frequency decoders in terms of the achievable BER results. Furthermore we compare space-time and spacefrequency coding and discuss the respective advantages and drawbacks of the different decoding algorithms in terms of their complexity. It should be noted that for the space-time approach we introduce the so-called matched-filter receiver, which shows significantly lower complexity compared to the maximum-likelihood decoder known from literature. The HIPERMAN system serves as an example OFDM system for quantitative comparisons.
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