Dual-polarization frequency reuse with frequency band shifting allocation

Spectrum is a limited and precious resource in wireless communications. Effective spectrum utilization becomes more and more important because of the expeditious increase of demand for wireless communications. In principle, the dual-polarization frequency reuse system, which employs two orthogonally polarized electromagnetic waves to carry information, can double the system capacity. However, the system performance degrades seriously and sometimes becomes unacceptable due to cross polarization and fading. In this paper, a new linear-polarized dual-polarization frequency reuse system that utilizes the concept of orthogonal frequency allocation to increase spectrum utilization is proposed. We analyze the performance of the dual-polarization system modulated by the quadrature phase-shift keying in the multipath fading channel with cross-polarization interference and Doppler effect. Because of the orthogonality of the polarized carriers and frequency spacing, the effect of cross polarization, which defeats the performance of the dual-polarization system severely, can be ignored. The proposed system has a bit error rate around 10/sup -7/ at the bit energy-to-noise ratio of 14 dB, while the bit error rates of the dual-polarization cancellation with bootstrap system and the conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system are about 10/sup -4/.