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PERFORMANCE OF MIMO-OFDM SYSTEM FOR
RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNEL













Fig 1. Block diagram of MIMO system









Pallavi Bhatnagar
1
, Jaikaran Singh
2
, Mukesh Tiwari
3
Department of Electronics & Communication,

Sri Satya Sai Institute of Science &Technology,
Sehore, MP (India)
pallavi_sx@rediffmail.com
1
, jksingh81@yahoo.co.in
2
, tiwari_mukesh79@yahoo.in
3

Abstract- This paper proposes a simple and efficient
simulation method for MIMO-OFDM system with channel
equalization.BPSK modulation is used to detect the behavior
of the Rayleigh fading channel in presence of additive white
Gaussian noise and then its performance is evaluated.
Obtained result is then compared with adding MLSE
equalizer. This paper shows that the addition of equalizer
reduces the BER (Bit Error Rate) and the channel output
becomes more pronounced. Though the total channel is a
frequency selective channel, the channel experienced by each
subcarrier in an OFDM system is a flat fading channel with
each subcarrier getting independent Rayleigh fading.
Keywords- MIMO system, channel, equalization, Rayleigh
fading.

I. INTRODUCTION
The rising demand of multimedia services and the
development of Internet related contents lead to increasing
curiosity to high speed communications. In the ceaseless
search for increased capacity in a wireless communication
channel it has been shown that by using MIMO (Multiple
Input Multiple Output) system architecture it is possible to
increase that capacity considerably. The combination
MIMO-OFDM is very likely and beneficial since OFDM
enables support of more antennas and larger bandwidths
since it simplifies equalization in MIMO systems.
Usually fading is considered as a problem in wireless
communication but MIMO channels uses the fading to
increase the capacity of entire system. Fading of the signal
can be mitigated by different diversity techniques.

II. OVERVIEW OF MIMO- OFDM SYSTEM
The MIMO system transmits different signals from
each transmit element so that the receiving antenna array
receives a superposition of all the transmitted signals. All
signals are transmitted from all elements once and the
receiver solves a linear equation system to demodulate the
message. Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system is an effe-



Fig 1. Block diagram of MIMO
We consider the system where the transmitter has
t
n
antennas and the receiver has
r
n antennas. Let
n m
h
,
be a
complex number corresponding to the channel gain between
transmit antenna n and the receive antenna m. If at a certain
time instant complex signals { }
nt
x x x ,..., ,
2 1
are
transmitted via the
t
n antennas, the received signals at
antenna m can be expressed as

=
+ =
t
n
n
m n n m m
e x h y
1
,
(1)
where
m
e is a noise signal. This relation is easily expressed
in a matrix structure. Let x and y be
t
n and
r
n vectors
containing the transmitter and receiver data, respectively.
Define the following
r
n x
t
n channel gain matrix
H =
(
(
(
(
(

nt nr nr
nt
h h
h h
, 1 ,
, 1 1 , 1
.......
.
......... ..........
.........
(2)
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.

tive solution to improve communication quality,
performance, capacity, and transmission rate. MIMO-
OFDM is under intensive investigation by researchers.

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Then we have, y = Hx + e (3)
where e = | |
T
nr
e e .......
1
is a vector of noise samples.
Key tool for increasing the transmission rate with
several transmitting antennas system consist of
transmitting more independent streams, or layers
of data from all available transmit antennas, all
together. In more precise terms, if we have a system
with P transmit antennas, we can transmit
simultaneously, Pt independent symbols one from
each t transmit antenna. At the receiver, we can get, at
any time instant Pr observations one from each
receive antenna. Therefore at any time instant, we
have a system of Pr observations in Pt unknowns.


Fig 2. Block diagram of MIMO OFDM system

III. FLAT RAYLEIGH FADING MODEL
The propagating radio signals are affected by the
physical channel in various ways. To specify a
situation of frequency-flat Rayleigh fading, a model
is introduced called flat Rayleigh fading model.
This is a reference model, which can be
conceived of as a simplification of heavy
scattering occurring locally only. Fast fading
component has Rayleigh density function if there is
no direct path from signaling parts. Rayleigh
distribution is as follows,

<
s s
|
|
.
|

\
|

=
, 0 0
0
2
exp
) (
2
2
2
r
r
r r
r P
Rayleigh o o
(4)
To model uncorrelated frequency-flat Rayleigh
fading, H is defined as an N
r
N
t
dimensional
matrix, denoted by H
iid
and having i.i.d. zero-mean,
circularly-symmetric complex Gaussian elements
with a variance of one.


IV. SNR VERSUS BIT ENERGY-TO-NOISE
DENSITY RATIO
To make a fair performance evaluation of
systems with, e.g., different coding schemes or
modulation schemes in terms of received energy
per bit, the error-rate performance is given as
function of the bit energy-to-noise density ratio
E
b
/N
0
. Whereas for wireless communication system
simulations, in general, the SNR at the receive
antenna is used as input parameter. Let E
s
/N
0

denote the SNR per sample at the input of the
RX baseband processing. Then, clearly, there is
a relation between E
b
/N
0
and E
s
/N
0
. The
baseband processing of a MIMO transmission
system consists of a number of subsequent
blocks that have an influence on the relation
between E
b
/N
0
and E
s
/N
0
.
- The encoder with coding rate R (R < 1),
- The spatial mapper that maps P
t
symbols on P
t

transmit antennas,
- And the modulation block that maps m bits
onto a 2
m
-ary modulation scheme.
Now, assume that the communication between
transmitter and receiver is scaled such that the
variance of the propagation attenuation is
c
2
= 1.
When R
b
= 1/T
b
denotes the bit rate and T
s
the
symbol duration, in general, the relation between
E
b
/N
0
and E
s
/N
0
is given by
E
b
= E
s
T
b
(5)

N
0
N
0
T
s
Given this equation, the relation between E
b
/N
0

and E
s
/N
0
can be determined. For an encoder with
coding rate R, it can be shown that T
s
= RT
b
, thus,

Es = R Eb (6)

N
0
N
0
The BER for BPSK in a Rayleigh fading channel is
defined as

Sending P
t
bits parallel on P
t
transmit antennas
reflects on the relation between T
s
and T
b
as
follows: T
s
= P
t
T
b
. Maximum likelihood
sequence estimation (MLSE) seeks to estimate the
data sequence which is most likely to have been
sent given the received signal vector.
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P
b
=1/2[1- { (E
b
/N
0
) / (E
b
/N
0
) +1}] (7)

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equalizes

VII. CONCLUSION
In this paper, performance of MIMO OFDM is
characterized with low complexity. The Rayleigh
distribution assumes that there are a sufficiently
large number of equal power multipath components
with different and independent phase. On basis of
the simulated results, it was concluded that the
structure has low bit error rate when MLSE
equalizer is used. It is shown through numerical
simulations that high performance gain is achieved
in equalized MIMO OFDM system.
VIII. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I would like to thank Sri Satya Sai Institute of
Science and Technology and the Department of
Electronics and communication engineering for
taking the time to discuss and demonstrate the
equalization technology with me. Also, for
providing very helpful comments on this paper.
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V. MLSE EQUALIZATION
In a single-carrier frequency-selective Rayleigh
fading environment, assuming a time-invariant
channel impulse response (CIR), the received
symbols are described by


L1
p
k
= h
j
s
kj
+ n
k
(8)
j=0

where s
k
denotes the kth complex symbol in the
transmitted sequence of N symbols chosen from an
alphabet u containing M complex symbols, p
k
is the
kth received symbol, n
k
is the kth Gaussian noise
sample g(0,
2
), and h
j
is the jth coefficient of the
estimated CIR. The equalizer is accountable for
reversing the outcome of the Channel on the
transmitted symbols in order to produce the
sequence of transmitted symbols with maximum
assurance.

VI. SIMULATION RESULTS
Simulation result shows the bit error rate (BER)
of MIMO- OFDM system, with two transmits and
one receive antenna over a Rayleigh fading with
additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. It
is noticeable that the bit error rate reduces as the
signal to noise ratio increases. After zero on x-axis,
this BER decreases rapidly with E
b
/N
o
.By using
MLSE equalizer, it performs much better.


Fig.3 BER performance of MIMO-OFDM system
with MLSE equalizer


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