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The theoretical BER performance analysis of a cooperative diversity scheme in frequency selective fading channel

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A novel cooperative diversity scheme based on Distributed Space-Time Block Coding and Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (DSTBC-MC-CDMA) is proposed which works well in frequency selective fading channels with multiple single-antenna users. And an analytical error model is established to describe the symbol decoding errors between interusers, based on which a close form expression for theoretical Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of the scheme is derived to analyze the influence of the interuser decoding errors on the BER performance of the scheme. Then simulation is complimented to verify the analytic result above, which also shows that the BER performance of DSTBC-MC-CDMA outgoes that of non-cooperative MC-CDMA with considerable gains. Furthermore, the simulations coincide with the theoretical results well.

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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60372107).

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Zhao, X., Zheng, B. The theoretical BER performance analysis of a cooperative diversity scheme in frequency selective fading channel. J. Electron.(China) 24, 740–747 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11767-006-0063-z

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