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A Low-Complexity Alamouti Space-Time Transmission Scheme for Asynchronous Cooperative Systems  

Lee, Young-Po (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부)
Chong, Da-Hae (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부)
Lee, Young-Yoon (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부)
Song, Chong-Han (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부)
Yoon, Seok-Ho (성균관대학교 정보통신공학부)
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a novel low-complexity Alamouti coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) scheme for asynchronous cooperative communications. Exploiting the combination of OFDM symbols at the source node and simple operations including sign change and complex product at the relay node, the proposed scheme can achieve cooperative diversity gain without use of time-reversion and shifting operations that the conventional scheme proposed by Li and Xia needs. In addition, by using the cyclic prefix (CP) removal and insertion operations at the relay node, the proposed scheme does not suffer from a considerable degradation of bit-error-rate (BER) performance even though perfect timing synchronization is not achieved at the relay node. From the simulation results, it is demonstrated that the BER performance of the proposed scheme is much superior to that of the conventional scheme in the presence of timing synchronization error at the relay node. It is also shown that the proposed scheme obtains two times higher diversity gain compared with the conventional scheme at the cost of half reduction in transmission efficiency.
Keywords
Alamouti Code; Asynchronous Cooperative System; Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM); Diversity;
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