Performance analysis for downlink MC-CDMA systems with space-time block codes in frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Hou, Zhihua ; Dubey, V.K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

658

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the error performance for downlink multicarrier code-division multiple access (MC-CDMA) system with space-time block codes (STBC) in correlated Rayleigh fading channels. An exact bit error rate (BER) is obtained for the system with maximal ratio combining (MRC) scheme based on the characteristic function (CF) and residue calculation method. Simulation results are also provided to verify our results.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; block codes; code division multiple access; error statistics; radio links; space-time codes; bit error rate; characteristic function; downlink MC-CDMA systems; frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels; maximal ratio combining scheme; residue calculation method; space-time block codes; Bit error rate; Block codes; Diversity reception; Downlink; Fading; Frequency; Multiaccess communication; Multicarrier code division multiple access; Performance analysis; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2003 and Fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia. Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference of the Fourth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8185-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.2003.1292536

Filename

1292536