Abstract

This paper present a new beamforming technique using singular value decomposition (SVD) for closed loop Multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems with various modulation techniques such as BPSK, 16-QAM, 16-PSK, DPSK and PAM along with convolution encoder. The channel matrix is decomposed into a number of independent orthogonal modes of excitation, which refer to as eigenmodes of the channel. Transmit precoding is performed by multiplying the input symbols with unitary matrix to produce the transmit beamforming, and the precoded symbols are transmitted over Rayleigh fading channel. At the receiver, combining process is performed by using maximum ratio combiner (MRC), and the receiver shaping is performed to retrieve the original input symbols by multiplying the received signal with conjugate transpose of the unitary matrix. Furthermore, the expressions for average bit error rate (BER) for M-PSK and average BER for M-QAM are derived. The superiority of the proposed work is proved by simulation results and the proposed work is compared to the other beamforming methods.

Authors

M. Raja¹ and P. Muthuchidambaranathan²
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India

Keywords

MIMO, Transmit-Beamforming, Diversity, SVD, Rayleigh Fading Channel