The influence of the additive noise is not improved after the equalization in OFDM. To solve this problem, diversity reception using array antennas is effective. However, it requires the hardware in proportion to the number of antennas and the hardware of the receiver becomes complicated. Therefore in this paper, we paid attention to DFT that is used in receiver, an OFDM diversity receiver whose hardware complexity is equal to that of a single antenna receiver is proposed. The proposed receiver combines signals from the intermediate stage of DFT. As the results of computer simulations and theoretical analysis, it is confirmed that the bit error rate characteristics are better than that of the single antenna receiver.
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