Performance Improvement of ICE for Orthogonal STBC MC-CDMA Systems over MIMO Channels

Author

Kumaratharan, N. ; Arnold, E. Edin ; Venkatesan, J. ; Dananjayan, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Pondicherry Eng. Coll., Pondicherry

fYear

2008

fDate

8-10 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The combination of multiple antennas and multicarrier code division multiple access (MC-CDMA) is a strong candidate for the downlink of future mobile communications. The study of such systems, in scenarios that model real-life transmissions is an additional step towards an optimised achievement. Channel estimation is employed to improve its performance by characterising the channel. In this paper turbo aided iterative channel estimation (ICE) technique is proposed for orthogonal space-time block coded (STBC) MC-CDMA systems with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel in the downlink. Simulations with a realistic outdoor MIMO channel model, over a wide range of data rates shows that turbo aided ICE outperforms ICE.

Keywords

MIMO communication; antenna arrays; block codes; channel estimation; code division multiple access; iterative methods; mobile radio; orthogonal codes; space-time codes; turbo codes; MIMO channels; future mobile communications; multicarrier code division multiple access; multiple-input multiple-output channel; orthogonal STBC MC-CDMA systems; orthogonal space-time block code; turbo aided iterative channel estimation technique; Amplitude modulation; Channel estimation; Downlink; Ice; MIMO; Mobile communication; Multicarrier code division multiple access; OFDM modulation; Phase modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; ICE; MC-CDMA; MIMO; STBC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial and Information Systems, 2008. ICIIS 2008. IEEE Region 10 and the Third international Conference on

Conference_Location

Kharagpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2806-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2806-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIINFS.2008.4798381

Filename

4798381