Novel Closed-Form Expressions for Ergodic Capacity of MIMO-OSFBC-OFDM Systems Over Channel Adaptation Policies

In this work, closed-form expressions for capacities per unit bandwidth for MIMO-OFDM systems employing Orthogonal Space-Frequency Block Coding over multipath frequency-selective fading channels are derived for adaptation policies like optimal power and rate adaptation, optimal rate adaptation with constant transmit power, channel inversion with fixed rate, and truncated channel inversion polices. A Signal-to-Noise Ratio based user selection scheme is considered. Optimal power and rate adaptation policy provides the highest capacity over other adaptation policies. Capacity penalty is the highest for optimal rate adaptation with constant transmit power policy, while the performance of channel inversion with fixed rate policy and truncated channel inversion policy lie between that of OPRA and ORA policies.