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Distributed SFBC for Relay-Assisted Single Carrier Transmission over Uplink Fast Fading Channels  

Seol, Dae-Young (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Kwon, Ui-Kun (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
Im, Gi-Hong (Pohang University of Science and Technology)
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Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC / v.44, no.5, 2007 , pp. 25-32 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a distributed space-frequency block code (SFBC) for relay-assisted single carrier frequency-domain equalization (SC-FDE). The proposed technique achieves spatial diversity gain over fast fading channels without the complexity of multiple antennas. The mobile equipment of the proposed system has a very simple transmitter structure with constant amplitude transmit sequences, which is desirable especially for uplink communications. In order to obtain spatial diversity, the transmit sequence of relay is efficiently generated in the time domain, which is equivalent to the SFBC. Further, efficient implementation of relay and destination structures is also presented. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed system significantly outperforms the distributed space-time block code (D-STBC) SC-FDE over fast fading channels.
Keywords
Single-carrier frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE); orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); distributed space-frequency block code (D-SFBC); relay;
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