MIMO-OFDM Transceivers With Dual-Polarized Division Multiplexing and Diversity for Multimedia Broadcasting Services

This brief paper presents multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems with dual-polarized division multiplexing (PDM) and diversity for multimedia broadcasting services. In particular, the polarized diversity is realized by transmitting two independent and distributed space-frequency coded signals through two sets of dual-polarized transmit antennas. In the corresponding polarized receptions, MIMO zero-forcing (ZF) detection and ZF detection combined with a group-wise or a symbol-wise successive cancelation (SIC) are used to minimize a depolarization effect caused by a cross-polarization discrimination (XPD). Furthermore, we analyze the output signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of such MIMO detections in terms of the XPD effect. It is shown that the output SINR of MIMO ZF detection increases as the absolute XPD value increases. It is also shown that the output SINR of ZF-SIC detection converges to that of ZF detection as the absolute XPD value increases. Finally, we compare the performances of uni-polarized and dual-polarized MIMO-OFDM systems over a multipath Rician channel with XPD. From simulation results, we conclude that as the absolute XPD value increases, the polarized MIMO-OFDM systems provide a lower symbol error rate than uni-polarized MIMO-OFDM systems.