Low Complexity Linear Precoder Design For Mimo-Ofdm System

Abstract

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a well-known method for high data rate wireless transmission. OFDM may be combined with antenna arrays at the transmitter and receiver to increase the diversity gain and/or to enhance the system capacity on time-varying and frequency-selective channels, resulting in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) configuration. This paper inspects different physical layer research challenges in MIMO-OFDM system design. It includes physical channel measurements and modeling, analog beam forming techniques using adaptive antenna arrays, space-time techniques for MIMO-OFDM, error control coding techniques, OFDM preamble and packet design, and signal processing algorithms used to perform time and frequency synchronization, channel estimation, and channel tracking in MIMO-OFDM systems. Finally, the paper examines a software radio implementation of MIMO-OFDM.