On the BER performance of space-frequency block coded OFDM systems in fading MIMO channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1366-1373

  Torabi, Mohammad ^b   Aïssa, Sonia ^a,c   Soleymani, M Reza ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

BER; Estimation errors; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); Rayleigh fading; Space frequency block coding (SFBC)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; BLOCK CODES; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; RAYLEIGH FADING;

MIMO CHANNELS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SPACE-FREQUENCY BLOCK CODING (SFBC);

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 34247384210     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.348333     Document Type: Article

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