Research Article

Space-Time Block Coding with Beamforming for Triple-Polarized Uniform Linear Array Systems

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

System parameterValue

Carrier frequency1.8 GHz
System bandwidth20 MHz
FFT size2048
Number of data carriers1200
Number of samples in CP144
Subcarrier spacing15 KHz
ModulationQPSK
Channel codingNo
MIMO configuration8A 3B(Tx) by 2A 3B(Rx)
Array spacingHalf-wavelength

Channel parameterValue

Number of scatterersIndoor: 64,
Outdoor: 4 clusters with 16 scatterers per cluster (64 in total)
Scatterer radius10 m
Rx velocity3 km/h for indoor;
100 km/h for outdoor
FadingFlat
XPD5.8 dB
Practical channel estimationZero-forcing