High-rate diversity across time and frequency using linear dispersion

To improve performance of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for fading channels, this paper proposes increasing frequency and time diversity using linear dispersion codes (LDC-OFDM). Methods of LDC-OFDM processing are proposed for both zero-padding (ZP) and cyclic-prefix (CP) type guard intervals. A two-step-estimation (TSE) decoding strategy is proposed that decouples symbol estimation from LDC decoding. This paper analyzes the upper bound diversity order of LDC-CP-OFDM, which is equal to the full diversity order available in the channels. A criterion for full frequency-time diversity design is derived, a rate-one code is provided and performance is examined through simulations. This paper also investigates LDC-CP-OFDM and LDC-ZP-OFDM performance under imperfect channel estimation and low complexity receiver structures, respectively. In addition, TSE is shown to have performance close to that of full complexity one-step estimation (OSE).

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