Performance of Block-Double Differential Design for Broadband Cooperative Communications with Carrier Frequency Offsets

In this letter, a relay-assisted transmission scenario over frequency-selective fading channels perturbed by different random carrier frequency offsets is considered. OFDM and block-double differential (BDD) design are implemented to overcome the problem of intersymbol interference (ISI) and carrier frequency offsets (CFOs). We analyze the symbol error rate (SER) performance of decode-and-forward relaying with BDD design in wireless cooperative communications over frequency-selective fading channels and derive a theoretical upper bound for average SER when the relay (R) is error free. It can be seen from our analysis that the system performance is influenced by the ability of R to decode, and when R decodes without error, both spatial and multipath diversity can be obtained without requiring any knowledge of channel state information and CFO information at the receivers. Numerical examples are provided to corroborate our theoretical analysis.

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