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Approaching the matched filter bound with block transmission techniques

Amaral, F. ; Dinis, R. ; Carvalho, PMC ; Souto, N.S.

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Vol. 23, Nº 1, pp. 76 - 85, January, 2012.

ISSN (print): 2161-3915
ISSN (online): 2161-3915

Scimago Journal Ranking: 0,00 (in 2012)

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1002/ett.1513

Abstract
In this paper, we consider orthogonal frequency division multiplexing and single-carrier with frequency-domain equalisation transmission schemes and study the impact of the number of multipath components and the diversity order on their performance. It is shown that when we have a high number of separable multipath components, the asymptotic performance of both schemes approaches the matched filter bound, even without diversity.