A Survey on Spatial Modulation OFDM: Optimal Detection and Performance Analysis

Authors

  • Fadila BERRAHMA Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, ALGERIA
  • Khalida GHANEM CDTA, Algiers, ALGERIA
  • Hicham BOUSBIA-SALAH Ecole National Polytechnique, Algiers, ALGERIA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53907/enpesj.v3i2.214

Keywords:

Spatial modulation, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing , MIMO, inter-symbol interference , optimal detector

Abstract

Spatial modulation is a novel modulation scheme that aims to acquire a trade-off between the two adverse purposes in wireless communications, namely the improvements of data rate and data reliability, by adjusting the operational transmit antenna index in the emitted bits.  To fight    against inter-symbol interference (ISI) present in frequency selective channels, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)  as become a extensively accepted and used mechanism. We investigate in this work the performance of SM-OFDM modulation over frequency selective MIMO channel using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) scheme. At the receiver side, a group of detectors is proposed to recover the active transmit antenna index (Tx-antenna) and the emitted data sequence. In this paper, a new SM-OFDM-based scheme is proposed, which adds another element of information in the transmitted SM-data block consisting of a chosen constellation among the available rotated set. To attain this, an additional index is used to select the specific  constellation. At the receiver, a set of detectors is  proposed to jointly estimate the transmitted symbol, as well as the used constellation and the active transmit antenna indices.  The comparison of the performance of this new scheme against the conventional SM-OFDM shows an increased spectral efficiency  at the price of a slight degradation in bit error rate. The proposed scheme permits a trade-off between the quality of the communication and the achieved spectral efficiency. Some concluding remarks are drawn over simulation results.

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Published

2023-12-31