MIMO-OFDM systems for High Data Rate Wireless Networks

Enrique Ulffe Whu, M.Sc. Candidate, Stanford University ([email protected]) EE360 Advanced Wireless Networks

PROJECT PROPOSAL High date rate wireless networks with very small symbol periods usually face unacceptable InterSymbol Interference (ISI) originated from multipath propagation and their inherent delay spread. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is a multicarrier-based technique for mitigating ISI to improve capacity in the wireless system with spectral efficiency (bps/Hz). On the other hand, Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems have rising attention of the wireless academic community and industry because their promise to increase capacity and performance with BER reduction proportionally with the number of antennas. This project will show that OFDM applied to MIMO systems with signal processing at the receiver is a solution to reduce Co-Channel Interference (CCI) and to increase capacity. Recent technical literature will be reviewed to present some of the basic characteristics of MIMO-OFDM sytems that makes them attractive for high data-rate transmission over wireless channels, and the problems with the CCI associated to multi-user operation which can reduce their performance. We will present how the V-BLAST algorithm implements a nonlinear detection technique based on spatial nulling process combined with symbol cancellation to reduce CCI and to improve performance. We then discuss briefly a MIMO-OFDM system that implements V-BLAST CCI for multi-user operation (TDMA single-frame) to increase system capacity by increasing the substream data rate. The analysis and simulation of the proposed system will be considered in two stages. The first stage involves the implementation of a system architecture model with MIMO vertical encoding, OFDM modulation/demodulation, V-BLAST signal processor with Zero Forcing (ZF) nulling for each OFDM subcarrier, and conventional decoding. The second stage compares the performance of the system for different antenna configurations and correlation factors between the MIMO channel components. If time permits, the project will analyze MMSE nulling (comparing with the low-complexity suboptimal ZF nulling), and other CCI cancellation processing schemes at the receiver. Additionally, since variable-rate variable-power M-QAM adaptation is also possible (but not detailed in this project) with perfect and instantaneous channel knowledge at the transmitter, this study will attempt to compare the performance of the system with correlated channels in different M-QAM schemes in order to contribute to further research in this area.

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April 25, 2003