Research Article

Experimental Evaluation of MIMO-OFDM System with Rateless Space-Time Block Code

Table 1

MIMO-OFDM parameters.

ParameterValue

Number of Tx antennas, 2
Number of Rx antennas, 2
Number of OFDM symbols1000
Nominal channel bandwidth20 MHz
Number of data subcarriers, 48
Number of pilot subcarriers, 4
Number of guard subcarriers, 12
Ratio of guard time to useful symbol time, 0.25
Number of used subcarriers, 52
Number of FFT points, 64
Sampling frequency, 20 MHz
Subcarrier spacing, 312.5 kHz
Used bandwidth, 16.25 MHz
Used symbol time, 3.2 μs
CP time, 0.8 μs
OFDM symbol time, μs
Sampling time, 50 ns
FFT offset4
LTS correlation threshold0.85