ABSTRACT

This paper has developed a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for multicarrier modulation in MIMO-OFDM system. The proposed system used additive Gaussian white noise (AGWN) and Rayleigh flat fading channel with respect to SNR using binary phase shift keying (BPSK). The algorithms for various scenarios of MIMO-OFDM system have been developed and simulated in MATLAB environment. The performance metric of the system was based on bit error ratio (BER) variation over values of signal to noise ratio (SNR) for different transmit and receive antennas including single input multiple output (SIMO) arrangement. The simulation results showed that the performance of DWT based MIMO-OFDM outperformed DFT based MIMO-OFDM. For the 2×1, 2×2, 2×3 MISO and MIMO systems, the DWT scheme offered reduced BER of 1.803e-05, 1.502e-05, and 1.413e-05 against 0.005847, 0.005361, and 0.005325 for the DFT scheme with respect to signal to noise ratio (SNR) at 10 dB. Generally, the results showed that using DWT scheme in OFDM for wireless communication system does not require an extra subcarrier to provide cyclic prefix function that serves as additional cost burden and reduces bandwidth.

Keywords: - Bit Error Rate, Discrete Fourier transform, Discrete wavelet transform, MIMO system, Transmission capacity