In this letter, an improved channel-adaptive detection scheme based on condition number combined with a QRD-M and CLLL algorithms is presented for MIMO-OFDM systems. The proposed scheme estimates the channel state by using the condition number and then the number of layers for the QRD-M is changed according to the condition number of channel. After the number of layers is determined, the proposed scheme performs the combined QRD-M and CLLL. Simulation results show that the BER curves of the proposed scheme and QRD-M using CLLL have similar performance. However, the complexity of the proposed scheme is about 27% less than QRD-M detection using CLLL.

In this letter, we propose a innovative threshold receiver for MIMO-OFDM system. The proposed scheme calculates the channel condition number and then selects either combined V algorithm and CLLL or combined QRD-M and DFE detection scheme according to channel information. The complexity of the proposed scheme is about 33.3% of the QRD-M for 44 MIMO-OFDM system.

Transmit diversity generally requires more than one antenna at the transmitter. However, many wireless devices are limited by size or hardware complexity. Cooperative diversity techniques were proposed to overcome this limitation. Cooperative communication has been widely investigated to improve the performance of wireless communication. Unfortunately, most existing cooperative schemes have the common fault of decreased transmission rate because the destination should receive the decodable compositions of symbols from the source and the relay. In this letter, we propose a new cooperative model that uses spatial phase coding (SPC) for orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA). This technique is free from the rate-loss and allows seamless cooperative communication while its diversity gain matches that of the conventional multiple antenna technique. The proposed technique is evaluated in terms of bit error rate (BER) and simulation results show that the proposed cooperative scheme approaches the performance of conventional multiple antenna system when the link between users is guaranteed.