International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
ISSN 0974-2190 Volume 3, Number 1 (2011), pp. 57-67
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Simulation of per Antenna Coding Schemes of
Receiver for Wireless Communication
S.D. Bhopale
1
and S.V. Sankpal
2
1
Tatyasaheb Kore Institute of Engg. & Technology,
Warananagar, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
2
D.Y. Patil College of Engg. & Technology,
Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Abstract
A very promising approach for various wireless applications to use multiple
antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver. The error rate performance
and complexity of the algorithms are evaluated for different antenna
configurations, for various constellation sizes, for different channel properties
with and without coding. It is shown that Maximum Likelihood Detection
(MLD) [1] outperforms the other schemes. Its complexity, however, is the
highest and growing exponentially with the number of transmit antennas. Less
complex alternatives are found that have only a slightly worse performance.
Since V-BLAST techniques are simulated. It is shown that the maximum
diversity gain equals the product of the number of transmit and receive
antennas and the effective length of the channel impulse response.
Introduction
Recent research on wireless communication systems has shown that using multiple
antennas at both transmitter and receiver offers the possibility of wireless
communication at higher data rates compared to single antenna systems. The
information-theoretic capacity of these multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
channels was shown to grow linearly with the smaller of the numbers of transmit and
receiver antennas in rich scattering environments, and at sufficiently high signal-to-
noise (SNR) ratios. Some special detection algorithms have been proposed in order to
exploit the high spectral capacity offered by MIMO channels. One of them is the V-
BLAST (Vertical Bell-Labs Layered Space-Time) algorithm which uses a layered
structure. This algorithm offers highly better error performance than conventional
linear receivers and still has low complexity.