Performance of Turbo coded wireless link for SISO-OFDM, SIMO-OFDM, MISO-OFDM and MIMO-OFDM system

In this paper, performance of a Turbo coded OFDM wireless link is evaluated in the presence of Rayleigh fading for SISO, SIMO, MISO and MIMO system. Data are encoded using turbo encoder then modulated by QPSK or 16 QAM or 64 QAM and further encoded using STBC, and the encoded data are split into n streams which are modulated by OFDM and simultaneously transmitted using n transmit antennas. It is observed that the turbo coded SISO-OFDM system provides 21 dB coding gain at 10
^-4
, turbo coded SIMO-OFDM system provides 20 and 13 db coding gain for 2 and 4 receive antennas respectively at a BER of 10
^-6
, turbo coded MISO-OFDM system provides 17 and 12 dB coding gain for 2 and 4 transmit antennas respectively at a BER of 10
^-6
and turbo coded MIMO-OFDM system provides 11 to 13 dB coding gain for different combination of transmit and receive antennas at BER 10
^-6
compare to uncoded SISO-OFDM, SIMO-OFDM, MISO-OFDM and MIMO-OFDM system.