A comparison of MIMO-OFDM and MIMO-SCFDE in WLAN environments

Author

Coon, J. ; Siew, J. ; Beach, M. ; Nix, A. ; Armour, S. ; McGeehan, J.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

6

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

3296

Abstract

Recent developments in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier frequency-domain equalization (SCFDE) have sparked debate about the superiority of one method over the other. In this paper, we further this debate by comparing the theoretical performance of OFDM and SCFDE when each is implemented in one of two different multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) architectures: spatial multiplexing and space-time block codes. This study focuses on the use of MIMO-OFDM and MIMO-SCFDE in wireless local area network (WLAN) applications. Performance is given in terms of the packet error rate (PER) and the throughput of the systems.

Keywords

MIMO systems; OFDM modulation; block codes; equalisers; error statistics; frequency-domain analysis; multiplexing; space-time codes; wireless LAN; MIMO; OFDM; WLAN; multiple-input multiple-output; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; packet error rate; single-carrier frequency-domain equalization; space-time block codes; spatial multiplexing; wireless local area network; Block codes; Decoding; Filters; MIMO; OFDM; Physical layer; Receiving antennas; Samarium; Viterbi algorithm; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258845

Filename

1258845