Signaling-embedded preamble design for OFDM system with transmit diversity

In this paper, a signaling-embedded preamble design is proposed for the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with transmit diversity. Utilizing the transmit diversity, two identical training sequences (TSs) are embedded in two OFDM symbols separately in discrete Fourier transform (DFT) domain and transmitted by two different antennas simultaneously. The relative distance between the two TSs in DFT domain could be varied in order to indicate several bits of signaling information for the receiver to acquire the transmission parameters signaling (TPS) quickly. Furthermore, the preamble can also be used for frame synchronization, carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation, and coarse channel estimation. The computational simulations were carried out under both additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and multipath channels, and the results demonstrated the design works accurately on the preamble detection, CFO estimation and signaling demodulation under both static and dynamic channels.