MIMO Spatial Multiplexing Technique With Transmit Diversity

Abstract

This letter proposes a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique for single carrier frequency-domain equalization (SC-FDE). The proposed system achieves spatial multiplexing and transmit diversity gains altogether, thus improving error performance and increasing spectral efficiency compared to conventional spatial multiplexing and transmit diversity techniques, respectively. In order to achieve both of the gains, independent data streams are transmitted simultaneously through all transmit antennas with different cyclic delay patterns for each data stream. Corresponding receiver structure is also presented, where a successive interference cancellation (SIC) algorithm without ordering process is introduced. Simulation results show that the proposed system with iterative receiver structure provides considerable performance gains over conventional MIMO techniques.