Analysis of Single RF Performance on MIMO-OFDM System Using Turbo Code and V-BLAST MMSE Detection

I Gede Puja Astawa, Rommy Aditya Pratama, Aries Pratiarso

Along with the passing time and recent technology, the advancement of information technology has been increased in the wireless technology. The common methods that are used in this wireless communication are MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) and OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing). MIMO is a system stands for a couple antenna on the transmitter and receiver which are working on themultipath component. While OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is a transmission method using multicarrier technique, dividing spectrum frequency into a couple subcarrier. The combination of MIMO and OFDM results in a high-speed transfer data system. The Single RF has reduced the usage of RF Front-End into a bigger matrix size in the conventional MIMO system. This final project will discuss about the Single RF system of MIMO-OFDM with the V-BLAST (Vertical Bell Laboratories Space-Time) and MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) detectionwhich is used to remove ISI (Intersymbol Interference) combined with theTurbo Code,where theTurbo Encoder that lies on the transmitter side is also theTurbo Decoder in the receiver side. MIMO-OFDM utilizesthe Single RF (Radio Frequency) basis. The test on this final project will include a Single RF antenna on the MIMO-OFDM system, MIMO-OFDM with the V-BLAST detector and MMSE MIMO-OFDM with the Turbo Code, by using 64 QAM modulation. The expected result is the analysis performance of the Single RF on the MIMO-OFDM system using Turbo Code and V-BLAST MMSEDetection. The system will be shown on theBit Error Rate (BER) toward the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR).