A new optimal transmit and receive diversity scheme

Author

Feng, Xiaoyan ; Leung, Cyril

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

538

Abstract

The effects of fading in mobile radio channels can be mitigated with the use of space (or antenna) diversity. One diversity scheme which is applicable to any number of transmit and receive antennas is maximum ratio transmission (MRT). In this paper, it is shown that a certain constraint on the MRT receiver combining weights results in performance degradation. A new transmit and receive diversity scheme, MRTC, is proposed which maximizes the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The MRTC scheme optimizes the transmit and receive weights. It is found that MRTC can offer significant gains over MRT. Another slightly sub-optimal but simpler-to-implement diversity scheme, IMRT, is also proposed. The IMRT scheme uses the same transmit weights as MRT; however, in contrast to MRT, it uses optimal MRC-based receive weights

Keywords

diversity reception; fading channels; mobile radio; multipath channels; MRT receiver combining weights; MRTC; SNR; antenna diversity; fading effects; maximum ratio transmission; mobile radio channels; optimal transmit/receive diversity scheme; signal-to-noise ratio; space diversity; Degradation; Diversity reception; Fading; Land mobile radio; Mobile antennas; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and signal Processing, 2001. PACRIM. 2001 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7080-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.2001.953689

Filename

953689