Space-Time-Frequency Turbo Code over Time-Varying and Frequency-Selective Fading Channel

Kouji ISHII
Ryuji KOHNO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E88-A    No.10    pp.2885-2895
Publication Date: 2005/10/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.10.2885
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Information Theory and Its Applications)
Category: Communication Theory
Keyword: 
turbo code,  space-time-frequency code,  iterative decoding,  EXIT chart,  OFDM,  MIMO,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose and investigate space-time-frequency turbo coded OFDM transmissions through time-varying and frequency-selective fading channel. The proposed turbo code is a serial concatenated convolutional code which consists of space-frequency and time-frequency domain codes. The aim of the proposed turbo code is to obtain both diversity and coding gains over space-time-frequency domain. Using computer simulations and EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) charts, we investigate the optimum structure of inner and outer codes. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed system leads to significantly enhanced performance. Moreover, we analyze the computational complexity.

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