Iterative turbo beamforming for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based hybrid terrestrial-satellite mobile system

Khan, AH, Imran, MA and Evans, BG (2012) Iterative turbo beamforming for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based hybrid terrestrial-satellite mobile system IET Communications, 6 (2). 157 - 164. ISSN 1751-8628

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Abstract

In the context of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based systems, pilot-based beamforming (BF) exhibits a high degree of sensitivity to the pilot sub-carriers. Increasing the number of reference pilots significantly improves BF performance as well as system performance. However, this increase comes at the cost of data throughput, which inevitably shrinks due to transmission of additional pilots. Hence an approach where reference signals available to the BF process can be increased without transmitting additional pilots can exhibit superior system performance without compromising throughput. Thus, the authors present a novel three-stage iterative turbo beamforming (ITBF) algorithm for an OFDM-based hybrid terrestrial-satellite mobile system, which utilises both pilots and data to perform interference mitigation. Data sub-carriers are utilised as virtual reference signals in the BF process. Results show that when compared to non-iterative conventional BF, the proposed ITBF exhibits bit error rate gain of up to 2.5 dB with only one iteration.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	This paper is a postprint of a paper submitted to and accepted for publication in IET Communications and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. The copy of record is available at IET Digital Library
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences > Electronic Engineering > Centre for Communication Systems Research
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2012 14:32
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2013 19:31
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/710811

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