Space Frequency Code for Cooperative Communications with both Timing Errors and Carrier Frequency Offsets

Weile ZHANG  Huiming WANG  Qinye YIN  Wenjie WANG  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E93-B   No.12   pp.3505-3508
Publication Date: 2010/12/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E93.B.3505
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Wireless Distributed Networks)
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Keyword: 
space-frequency code,  cooperative communications,  timing errors,  carrier frequency offsets,  

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Summary: 
In this letter, we propose a simple distributed space-frequency code with both timing errors and multiple carrier frequency offsets (CFO) in asynchronous cooperative communications. By employing both the Alamouti coding approach and the transmit repetition diversity technique, full diversity gain can be achieved by the fast symbol-wise maximum likelihood (ML) decoding at the destination node. Analysis and simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.