Virtual MIMO-Based Single Frequency Network

Author

Qu, Chunhe ; Yang, Jing ; Zhang, Guoqing

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2012

Lastpage

2016

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce virtual multiple input multiple output (MIMO) techniques into single frequency network (SFN) for providing multimedia multicast/broadcast. Virtual MIMO-based SFN can achieve the full spatial diversity inherent in SFN and greatly improve the reliability of transmission without sacrificing much bandwidth. Furthermore we provide a general method for evaluating the bit error rate (BER) performance of virtual MIMO-based SFN. By this method, we derive an approximate formula for the average BER of M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM). We also present simulations to confirm the formula and compare virtual MIMO- based SFN with traditional SFN.

Keywords

MIMO communication; digital audio broadcasting; digital video broadcasting; error statistics; multicast communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; M-ary quadrature amplitude modulation; bit error rate performance; multimedia multicast/broadcast; single frequency network; virtual multiple input multiple output techniques; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Electronic mail; Fading; Forward error correction; Frequency; MIMO; Multimedia communication; OFDM; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2008. ICC '08. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2075-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2008.386

Filename

4533422