IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Regular Section
Adaptive Switching Technique for Space-Time/Frequency Coded OFDM Systems
Namseok CHANGEGye-Tae GILJoonhyuk KANGGangyoul YU
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2008 Volume E91.B Issue 2 Pages 633-636

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In this letter, a switched transmission technique is presented that can provide the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems with additional diversity gain. The space-time block coding (STBC) and space-frequency block coding (SFBC) are considered for the transmission of the OFDM signals. A proper coding scheme is selected based on the estimated normalized delay spread and normalized Doppler spread. The selection criterion is derived empirically. It is shown through computer simulations that the proposed switching technique can improve the bit error rate (BER) performance of an OFDM system when the corresponding wireless channel has some time variation of time selectivity as well as frequency selectivity.

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