Performance of OFDM With Signal Space Diversity Using Subcarrier Coordinate Interleaving

Abstract

Coordinate interleaving (CI) is applied to an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system to exploit signal space diversity with binary phase-shift keying modulation. Two different CI strategies are introduced taking the correlation coefficients among the subcarrier channel gains into account. Accordingly, a number of different scenarios are investigated. Assuming Rayleigh fading, an exact closed-form expression on the bit error probability is derived. It is shown that the error performance of the system can be increased to a great extent with a feedback cost of a few bits and only a negligible increase in complexity. The proposed system is also shown to enhance the communication privacy under limited feedback.