MIMO-OFDM: Maximum diversity using maximum likelihood detector

Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems offer considerable increase in data throughput and link range without additional bandwidth or transmit power by using several antennas at transmitter and receiver to improve wireless communication system performance. At the same time, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has becoming a very popular multi-carrier modulation technique for transmission of signals over wireless channels. OFDM eliminate Inter-Symbol-Interference (ISI) and allows the bandwidth of subcarriers to overlap without Inter Carrier Interference (ICI). A MIMO-OFDM modulation technique can achieve reliable high data rate transmission over broadband wireless channels. This paper deals with the analysis of a MIMO-OFDM system by using a MATLAB program. The performance of the system is evaluated on the basis of Bit Error Rate (BER) and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) level.