A Spectrally Efficient Frequency Diversity Technique

T. Araújo and R. Dinis (Portugal)

Keywords

Frequency diversity, frequency domain equalization, itera tive block DFE, multiuser detection

Abstract

In this paper we consider an SC-based (Single-Carrier) block transmission, employing FDE (Frequency Domain Equalization) receivers and we present a frequency diver sity technique that allows high spectral efficiencies. As with conventional frequency diversity techniques, L repli cas of a given signal are transmitted at L different fre quency bands. However, contrarily to conventional fre quency diversity schemes, up to L users can share this set of L frequency bands. Since this leads to strong inter ference levels, we propose an iterative, frequency-domain receiver where all the users sharing the L frequency bands are jointly detected. Our performance results show that the proposed frequency diversity scheme allows high diversity gains, while keeping the spectral efficiency of conventional SC schemes.

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