Linear Dispersion for Single-Carrier Communications in Frequency Selective Channels

Linear dispersion coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (LDC-OFDM) has recently been proposed to improve joint frequency and time diversity. This paper investigates whether LDC are able to support joint frequency and time diversity for single-carrier block communications in time-varying frequency selective fading channels, and proposes linear dispersion coded cyclic-prefix single-carrier modulation (LDC- CP-SCM), which utilizes LDC across multiple CP-SCM blocks. LDC-CP-SCM uses a layered two-stage LDC decoding strategy, and is thus backwards-compatible to CP-SCM systems. This paper analyzes the diversity properties of LDC-CP-SCM, and provides a sufficient condition for LDC-CP-SCM to maximize all available joint frequency and time diversity gain and coding gain. For the LDC considered, simulations show that with and without carrier frequency offset (CFO) effects, LDC-CP-SCM may outperform both CP-SCM and LDC-CP-OFDM in time- varying frequency selective channels. This paper also shows that LDC-CP-SCM with forward error correction (FEC) may outperform CP-SCM with FEC over time.

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