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Near-Instantaneously Adaptive HSDPA-Style OFDM Versus MC-CDMA Transceivers for WIFI, WIMAX, and Next-Generation Cellular Systems
Burts-by-burst (BbB) adaptive high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) style multicarrier systems are reviewed, identifying their most critical design aspects. These systems exhibit numerous attractive features, rendering them eminently eligible for employment in next-generation wireless systems. It is argued that BbB-adaptive or symbol-by-symbol adaptive orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) modems counteract the near instantaneous channel quality variations and hence attain an increased throughput or robustness in comparison to their fixed-mode counterparts. Although they act quite differently, various diversity techniques, such as Rake receivers and space-time block coding (STBC) are also capable of mitigating the channel quality variations in their effort to reduce the bit error ratio (BER), provided that the individual antenna elements experience independent fading. By contrast, in the presence of correlated fading imposed by shadowing or time-variant multiuser interference, the benefits of space-time coding erode and it is unrealistic to expect that a fixed-mode space-time coded system remains capable of maintaining a near-constant BER
Alamouti OFDM/OQAM systems with time reversal technique
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing with Offset Quadrature Amplitude
Modulation (OFDM/OQAM) is a multicarrier modulation scheme that can be
considered as an alternative to the conventional Orthogonal Frequency Division
Multiplexing (OFDM) with Cyclic Prefix (CP) for transmission over multipath
fading channels. In this paper, we investigate the combination of the OFDM/OQAM
with Alamouti system with Time Reversal (TR) technique. TR can be viewed as a
precoding scheme which can be combined with OFDM/OQAM and easily carried out in
a Multiple Input Single Output (MISO) context such as Alamouti system. We
present the simulation results of the performance of OFDM/OQAM system in SISO
case compared with the conventional CP-OFDM system and the performance of the
combination Alamouti OFDM/OQAM with TR compared to Alamouti CP-OFDM. The
performance is derived by computing the Bit Error Rate (BER) as a function of
the transmit signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
Diversity-Multiplexing Tradeoff in the Low-SNR Regime
An extension of the popular diversity-multiplexing tradeoff framework to the
low-SNR (or wideband) regime is proposed. The concept of diversity gain is
shown to be redundant in this regime since the outage probability is
SNR-independent and depends on the multiplexing gain and the channel power gain
statistics only. The outage probability under the DMT framework is obtained in
an explicit, closed form for a broad class of channels. The low and high-SNR
regime boundaries are explicitly determined for the scalar Rayleigh-fading
channel, indicating a significant limitation of the SNR-asymptotic DMT when the
multiplexing gain is small.Comment: accepted by IEEE Comm. Letter
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