Symbols detection for frequency-selective V-BLAST OFDM systems

1.INTRODUCTION TheverticalBellLabslayeredspace time(V BLAST)architecture1]isonemostpromisingspace timecoding(STC)technique.Theprovisioningca pacityoftheV BLASTarchitecturecanmorenear thetheoreticalupper limitofchannelcapacity2].Therefore,quiteanumberofresearchersproposedto deploytheV BLASTarchitectureinwirelesslocal loop(WLL)andwirelesslocalareanetwork(WLAN)3].Conventionally,themultiple inputmultiple out put(MIMO)wirelesschannelsintheV BLASTar chitectureareassumedtobefl…

Symbols detection for frequency-selective V-BLAST OFDM systems

As the combining form of the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) technique and the vertical Bell Labs layered space-time (V-BLAST) architecture, the V-BLAST OFDM system can better meet the demand of next-generation (NextG) broadband mobile wireless multimedia communications. The symbols detection problem of the V-BLAST OFDM system is investigated under the frequency-selective fading environment. The joint space-frequency demultiplexing operation is proposed in the V-BLAST OFDM system. Successively, one novel half-rate rotational invariance joint space-frequency coding scheme for the V-BLAST OFDM system is proposed. By elegantly exploiting the above rotational invariance property, we derive one direct symbols detection scheme without knowing channels state information (CSI) for the frequency-selective V-BLAST OFDM system. Extensive simulation results demonstrate the validity of the novel half-rate rotational invariance joint space-frequency coding scheme and the performance of the direct symbols detection scheme.