Performance of the MIMO CS-PRP-OFDM systems with complementary codes

This paper presents a new transceiver framework of the MIMO-OFDM systems, with the space-time block code (ST-BC). Unlike the conventional Pseudo-Random Postfix (PRP) - OFDM in our proposed framework the null samples of zero-padding (ZP)-OFDM is replaced by known cyclic postfix sequence (CPS), weighted by a pseudo-random (PR) scalar. Since the CPS is implemented by the cyclic-shift (CS) complementary code (CC) sequences, the proposed transceiver scheme is referred to as the MIMO CS-PRP-OFDM systems. By exploring the useful property of CC sequences, convolved with channel information, the receiver design associated with the semi-blind channel estimation of the proposed MIMO CS-PRP-OFDM systems is affected only by the background noise. It avoids the interference of the transmitted signals, and yields achieving better system performance, in terms of symbol error rate, compared with the conventional PRP-OFDM based systems, with less complexity. This is especially true when the signal-to-noise ratio is increased.