Title :
BER performance of STBC over frequency selective fading channels in the downlink WCDMA system
Author :
Lai, Tung X. ; Sesay, Abu B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Calgary Univ., Alta., Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, we study the space-time block coding (STBC) in the downlink WCDMA with linear receivers at the terminal; including conventional Rake receivers and well known linear channel equalizers. The BER performance is analyzed for these linear receivers and the numerical results show that better performance is achieved when the linear channel equalization is employed at the terminal´s receiver.
Keywords :
block codes; channel coding; code division multiple access; equalisers; error statistics; fading channels; radio receivers; space-time codes; BER performance; Rake receivers; STBC; downlink WCDMA system; frequency selective fading channels; linear channel equalization; linear channel equalizers; linear receivers; space-time block coding; terminals; Bit error rate; Block codes; Downlink; Equalizers; Fading; Frequency; Multiaccess communication; Multipath channels; Performance analysis; RAKE receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2004. Canadian Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8253-6
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2004.1349718
