<div dir="ltr">Got the answer (Thank you Dr. Estevez) and will proceed with the rest of the in-progress article about SFBC on Neptune. <br><br>These are not adding physical frequency diversity channels, but a particular use of the existing subcarriers in the resource grid. The nomenclature threw me. <br><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-Michelle Thompson<br><br><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 8:39 AM Michelle Thompson <<a href="mailto:mountain.michelle@gmail.com">mountain.michelle@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Do you know about #LTE transmitters and can help with some questions? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have what I hope is a simple question about space frequency block coding (SFBC) implementation.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">SFBC is a special case of space time block coding (STBC) in MIMO, where we get a stream of transmitter samples that are supposed to go out the door and on the air, and we use some tricks to get better reliability in #multipath environments.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">In STBC, we take two samples at a time, and transmit each of them on a different antenna. This gives space diversity. We’ve sent out two samples in one time step, so we have an extra time step. We fill this with special copies of the two symbols. These copies help us a lot at the receiver. It’s really neat and is called the Alamouti technique. OK, so two samples, two time slots, two antennas.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div>Now, to get even more diversity gain, I am going to send the special copies of the samples on a different subcarrier. That’s SFBC. Great. It makes sense. But I now have an extra time slot “back again”. If I have a 10 MHz channel originally, are these two subcarriers 5 and 5 MHz? Every place it’s described simply mentions “N subcarriers to give frequency diversity” with no guidance on what frequencies we’re talking about.</div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div>Do I split up my original transmit spectrum in traditional subcarrier methods? Use new transmit filters? I’m assuming yes, but if there’s something else that we do, please let me know. Now that we have two sample sent in one time step, what do I do with the other time step? I think I simply extend the four samples out to cover it, but this isn’t said anywhere that I can find.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">This is probably common knowledge to someone, and if that someone is probably reading this, I just want to make sure that’s what is generally done before I cook up hardware that doesn’t comply with the way SFBC is generally done in LTE or other systems that use this transmitter diversity technique. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1) how are subcarriers assigned in SFBC? Do I split the transmit bandwidth and use traditional techniques?</div><div dir="auto">2) do we extend the samples out in time because we now have frequency diversity? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you!</div><div dir="auto">-Michelle Thompson </div></div></div>
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