Performance of Dual-Polarized DSTTD-IDMA system over correlated frequency selective channels

Abstract

In this correspondence, we present the performance of Dual-Polarized double space–time transmit diversity (DSTTD) aided multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) interleave division multiple access (IDMA) scheme over correlated frequency-selective channels for downlink communication. DSTTD system is realized by employing two space–time block code units at the base station (BS). We employ two Dual-Polarized antennas both at the BS and mobile stations. We consider maximum-likelihood ratio detection algorithm at the receiver to detect the signals and to mitigate the effects of multiple access interference and multi stream interference. We implement iterative type turbo decoding algorithm to enhance bit error rate (BER) performance. We evaluate the performance of Dual-Polarized DSTTD-IDMA system based on Stanford University Interim channel models and Long-Term Evaluation channel model. Our simulation results reveal that DSTTD-IDMA system with Dual-Polarized antenna requires higher SNR than uni-polarized antennas. However, it provides the advantage of replacing two uni-polarized antennas by a single Dual-Polarized antenna.