Performance evaluation of fountain codes for MIMO-OFDM system over Rician faded channel

Author

Sharma, Kamna ; Verma, A. ; Kaur, Jaspinder ; Trishla

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Indira Gandhi Delhi Tech. Univ. for Women, New Delhi, India

fYear

2014

fDate

7-8 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

319

Lastpage

324

Abstract

Fountain Codes are referred to as a class of rateless codes´⁴¹ which efficaciously improves the performance of systems used for wireless data transmission. In this paper, we present a quantitative analysis of Fountain Coded Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) - Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems over Rician faded channel. Bit Error Rate (BER) performance evaluation and comparison is carried out on Fountain Coded and Convolution Coded MIMO - OFDM systems for a range of antenna configurations. Utilizing this model we investigated the performance merits of Fountain Codes in comparison to that of MIMO - OFDM and Convolution Codes. The simulated results in terms of BER shows that Fountain Coded MIMO - OFDM system has a coding gain of 3 dB as opposed to Convolution Coded MIMO - OFDM system.

Keywords

MIMO communication; OFDM modulation; Rician channels; antenna arrays; convolutional codes; error statistics; BER performance evaluation; Rician faded channel; antenna configuration; bit error rate performance evaluation; coding gain; convolution-coded MIMO-OFDM systems; fountain-coded MIMO-OFDM systems; multiple-input multiple-output systems; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing systems; rateless code; wireless data transmission; Biomedical imaging; Communication systems; Conferences; AWGN; BER; Convolution Codes; Fountain Codes; MIMO; OFDM; OSTBC; Rician Fading; SNR;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Medical Imaging, m-Health and Emerging Communication Systems (MedCom), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Greater Noida

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5096-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MedCom.2014.7006025

Filename

7006025