Performance Analysis of STBC- OFDM System under Multipath Fading Channel
Gunjan Manik1, Alka Kalra2, Sanjeev Kalra3 

1Gunjan Manik, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering Haryana College of Technology & Management, Kaithal.
2Alka Kalra Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering Haryana College of Technology & Management, Kaithal.
3Sanjeev Kalra, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Haryana College of Technology & Management, Kaithal.
Manuscript received on November 25, 2011. | Revised Manuscript received on December 14, 2011. | Manuscript published on January 05, 2012. | PP: 87-90 | Volume-1 Issue-6, January 2012. | Retrieval Number: F0274111511/2012©BEIESP
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Abstract: In current 4G systems growing demand of multimedia services and the growth of Internet related contents lead to increasing interest to high speed communications. Recently, space time block codes (STBC) have gained much attention as an effective transmit diversity technique to provide reliable transmission with high peak data rates to increase the capacity of wireless communication systems. In this paper, performance of STBC-OFDM is analyzed under different constraints in Rayleigh fading channels. We have studied the effect of modulation order, antenna selection techniques, slow and fast fading conditions and power conditions on the performance of STBC-OFDM.
Keywords: MIMO, OFDM, STBC, Multipath, fading.