The Error Performance and Fairness of CUWB Correlated Channels

The symbol period becomes smaller compared to the channel delay in multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) cognitive ultra wideband (CUWB) wireless communications, the transmitted signals experiences frequency-selective fading and leads to performance degradation. In this paper, a new design method for space-time trellis codes in MB-OFDM systems with correlated Rayleigh fading channels is introduced. This method converts the single output code symbol into several STTC code symbols, which are to be transmitted simultaneously from multiple transmitter-antennas. By using Viterbi optimal soft decision decoding algorithm, we investigate both quasi-static and interleaved channels and demonstrate how the spatial fading correlation affects the performance of space-time codes over these two different MB-OFDM wireless channel models. Simulation results show that the performance of space-time code is to be robust to spatial correlation. When the system bandwidth increases, the long term fairness quality will gradually become better and finally converges to 1. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the Intelligent Information Technology Application Research Association.