Intercarrier interference in MIMO OFDM

In this paper, we examine multicarrier transmission over time-varying channels. We first develop the model for such a transmission scheme and focus particularly on OFDM-based schemes. We analyze the impact of time-variation within a transmission block which could arise both from Doppler spread of the channel and from synchronization errors. We propose a time-domain approach to mitigate the effects of such time-variations. This approach reduces to the familiar single-tap frequency-domain equalizer when the channel is block time-invariant. We also develop this In the context of multiple transmit and receive antennas and specialize the receiver to space-time block-coded system. Finally we provide numerical results.