A general SFN structure with transmit diversity for TDS-OFDM system

In the digital television terrestrial broadcasting, the Single Frequency Network (SFN) has much advantage. SFN can serve an arbitrary large area with the same information broadcasted at the same frequency, resulting in the potential diversity gain. To improve the transmission performance of the Time Domain Synchronous-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (TDS-OFDM) system in SFN, a general SFN structure with transmit diversity is introduced, theoretically analyzed and computer simulated. The proposed SFN structure is flexible to set up. Simulations show that this method can greatly improve the reliability of the signal transmission over the frequency selective fading channels and is suitable for the TDS-OFDM system in SFN.

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