Performance of the MIMO PRCP-OFDM system with orthogonal cyclic-shift sequences

Unlike the conventional Pseudo-Random Posfix (PRP) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) or PRP-OFDM approach, recently we proposed a new transceiver framework for OFDM system, named as the Pseudo Random Cyclic Postfix (PRCP)-OFDM, with complementary codes (CC). Also, it was extended to the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas system, equipped with the space-time block code (SP-BC). In this paper, the cyclic postfix (CP) sequence is implemented with the Orthogonal Cyclic-shift (OCS) sequences to substitute the CC. By exploring the useful property of OCS sequences, convolved with channel information, at receiver side it can be employed to perform semi-blind channel estimation without incurring the signal interference to the desired postfix sequences. It is affected only by the background noise, and yields achieving better system performance. To demonstrate the merits of proposed ST-BC MIMO PRCP-OFDM system the performance is investigated and further compared with the ST-BC MIMO PRP-OFDM system and ST-BC MIMO CP-OFDM system with optimal training pilots, under various channel environments.