• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.12
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• pp.8-16
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a structure of computationally efficient MIMO-OFDM transmitters, using STBC. Straightforward implementation of these systems requires separate WFT processing blocks for each of the transmit antennas. In our proposed scheme, we use symmetry properties of Fourier transform, and thus use a frequency domain encoding strategy. This greatly reduces the computational burden. The proposed scheme uses just a single IFFT block at each OFDM symbol period, and thus resulting in the same complexity as a single antenna OFDM system. As specific examples of the proposed schemes, we present frequency domain encoding matrices for QO-STBC-OFDM and QO-SFBC-OFDM transmitters.