Optimal antenna location for STBC-OFDM downlink with distributed transmit antennas in linear cells

Author

Shen, Ying ; Tang, Youxi ; Kong, Ting ; Shao, Shihai

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Commun., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu

Volume

11

Issue

5

fYear

2007

fDate

5/1/2007 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

387

Lastpage

389

Abstract

This letter focuses on where to place transmit antennas so as to obtain the best performance for a linear cell downlink distributed antenna system with space-time block coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. Aiming to solve this problem, the area averaged bit error probability (AABEP) is derived, considering the effects of path loss, correlated shadowing, multipath fading, background noise and mobile station location. Our analysis shows that the antennas should be located symmetrically about the cell center in order to achieve the minimum AABEP

Keywords

OFDM modulation; block codes; cellular radio; correlation methods; error statistics; fading channels; multipath channels; space-time codes; transmitting antennas; AABEP; STBC-OFDM; area averaged bit error probability; correlated shadowing; distributed antenna system; linear cell downlink; mobile station location; multipath fading; optimal antenna location; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; space-time block code; transmitting antenna; Antennas and propagation; Area measurement; Base stations; Downlink; Error probability; Fading; OFDM; Shadow mapping; System performance; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2007.061923

Filename

4202082