Design and Implementation of MIMO-

OFDM Channel Simulators Research Day

Odiri C. Oghre 25th June, 2010
Energy Group

Overview Receiver Design

The combined use of multiple antennas at both transmitter and

receiver termed Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) signal
R = Ha + n
processing with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
(OFDM) has been hailed as the solution to the desire for
 R1   H11 H12  a1  n1 
 
improving spectral efficiency of wireless communications
without the attendant increase in either transmit power or *
 R   H H  a  n 
bandwidth.
 2   21 22   2   2 
MIMO Model
MIMO Detector
H11
Linear Detection
H12  Zero-forcing (ZF)
Receiver
Transmitter  Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE)

H Ordered Successive Interference Cancellation

Wireless Channel  VBLAST/ZF Algorithm
 VBLAST/MMSE
MIMO Schematic  VBLAST/LLSE
 VB:AST/MAP
a1
Tx 1 Rx 1 Lattice Detection
a2, a1 a2  Maximum Likelihood Detection
MIMO
Splitter

Tx 2 Rx 2 aM*…….a2*, a1*  Sphere

Data

1]
Input Bit
RS Encoder
[512x1]
Convolution Encoder
[768x1]
Block Interleaver
[768x1]
Rectangular
QAM
[192x1]
A-1 T1
[192x1]
Algorith
Stream Output Bit Stream
m
[512x1] [768x1] [768x1] [192x1] [192x1]
RS Encoder Convolution Encoder Block Interleaver Rectangular A-2 T2
[192x1]

aM BER Curves
QAM

Tx M MiMo Encoder Rx N
H
0.004356
0
3
542 [192x1] [192x1]
[192x1] 10
1.244e+005
8x1]
Tx
Error Rate 3
Wireless Channel AWGN AWGN 4x4 MIMO
Calculation
Rx
ZFBER_2310
8x1]
3
[192x1]
[192x1]
-1 3x3 MIMO
Signal To 10
0.0008841
Workspace 2x2 MIMO
55
Tx

2x2 MIMO Model in Simulink

Error Rate 3
1] 3 6.221e+004
Calculation -2
1]
Rx
10
ZFBER_1_2310
3 [192x1]

Signal To
Workspace1 -3
84x1]
RS Decoder Convolution Decoder Block Interleaver Rectangular R1 R-1
[192x1] 10
BER

[384x1] [512x1] [768x1] [768x1] [192x1]

QAM

-4
RS Decoder Convolution Decoder Block Interleaver Rectangular
[192x1]
R2 R-2
[192x1] 10
[384x1] [512x1] [768x1] [768x1] [192x1]
QAM

MiMo Decoder
-5
10

-6
10

-7
10
0 5 10 15 20 25
Eb/N0 (dB)

Scatter Plot

Transmitted symbols Channel Data Received symbols