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Field Trial of a Space-Time Equalizer for TDMA Mobile Communications in a Suburban Micro-Cell Environment
Takeshi TODA Yuukichi AIHARA Yukiyoshi KAMIO Jun-ichi TAKADA
Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications
Vol.E86-B
No.6
pp.1954-1960 Publication Date: 2003/06/01 Online ISSN:
DOI: Print ISSN: 0916-8516 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Wireless Communication Technology Keyword: delay spread, envelope cross-correlation, inter-symbol interference, space and path diversity, space-time equalizer, TDMA mobile communications,
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Summary:
A field trial, within a suburban macro-cell environment, of a space-time (ST) equalizer for TDMA mobile communication systems is described. The ST equalizer was a cascade connection of two array processors for a four-antenna array and a two-branch-metric-combining maximum-likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) that was designed to obtain full space- and path-diversity gains from first-arrival and one-symbol-delayed signals while suppressing excessively long-delayed inter-symbol interference (ISI). The radio frequency was 3.35 GHz, the transmission rate was 4.096 Mb/s, and the modulation was QPSK. The long-delayed ISI reduction and the space-path diversity effect of the ST equalizer was validated by Eb/N0 vs. bit-error-rate (BER) curves with respect to delay spread and antenna spacing as compared with the case of an array processor alone being used.
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