Abstract
We present a unified approach to constructing linear space-time (ST) block codes based on unitary constellation-rotating (ST-CR) precoders. We show that with an arbitrary number of M-transmit and N-receive antennas, ST-CR precoders achieve 1 symbol/sec rate and enjoy maximum diversity gain M N over both quasi-static and fast fading channels. We also compare real with complex rotations to delineate the tradeoff between performance and complexity. Based on a simplified decoder, we study diversity and coding gains as well as information-theoretic aspects of the proposed ST-CR scheme. Compared with ST orthogonally designed (ST-OD) codes, ST-CR precoding provides larger coding gain and maximum mutual information. Though ST-OD codes afford simpler decoding, the tradeoff between performance and rate versus complexity favors the ST-CR codes when M, N or the spectral efficiency of the system increase.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2429-2432 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings |
| Volume | 4 |
| State | Published - 2001 |
| Event | 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - Salt Lake, UT, United States Duration: May 7 2001 → May 11 2001 |