Performance evaluation of a SIMO-OFDM wireless communication system impaired by timing error

Author

Harun-Owr-Roshid, Muhammad ; Majumder, S.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., United Int. Univ., Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 Dec. 2010

Firstpage

614

Lastpage

617

Abstract

The focus of this paper is on the performance of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system considering the combined influence of receiver noise, Rayleigh fading and the timing error due to imperfect slot synchronization at the receiver. Performance results are presented in terms of BER, BER improvement and BER-floor in presence of inter-channel interference (ICI) and inter-symbol interference (ISI) and additive white Gaussian noise for single input multiple output(SIMO) OFDM system using maximal ratio combining (MRC) technique. The results show that there is a significant degradation in system BER due to timing error but can be improved by applying diversity at the receiver.

Keywords

AWGN; OFDM modulation; Rayleigh channels; adjacent channel interference; diversity reception; error statistics; interference suppression; intersymbol interference; performance evaluation; radio networks; radio receivers; synchronisation; BER improvement; Rayleigh fading; SIMO-OFDM wireless communication system; interchannel interference; intersymbol interference; maximal ratio combining technique; performance evaluation; receiver noise; single input multiple output system; slot synchronization; timing error; white Gaussian noise; Bit Error Rate (BER); Maximal Ratio Combining (MRC); Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM); Signal to Interference ratio (SIR); Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO); Timing synchronization error;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6277-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICELCE.2010.5700768

Filename

5700768