Effect of keyholes on the symbol error rate of space-time block codes

Author

Shin, Hyundong ; Lee, Jae Hong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Seoul Nat. Univ., South Korea

Volume

7

Issue

1

fYear

2003

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

29

Abstract

In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading environments, degenerate channel phenomena, so-called keyholes or pinholes, may exist under realistic assumptions where a MIMO channel has uncorrelated spatial fading between antenna arrays but a rank-deficient transfer matrix. In this letter, we analyze the average symbol error rate (SER) of orthogonal space-time block codes (STBCs) with M-PSK and M-QAM constellations over keyhole channels.

Keywords

MIMO systems; antenna arrays; antenna theory; block codes; channel coding; error statistics; fading channels; phase shift keying; quadrature amplitude modulation; space-time codes; M-PSK; M-QAM constellations; MIMO fading environments; SER; STBCs; antenna arrays; degenerate channel phenomena; keyholes; multiple-input multiple-output fading environments; orthogonal space-time block codes; pinholes; rank-deficient transfer matrix; space-time block codes; symbol error rate; uncorrelated spatial fading; Antenna arrays; Block codes; Diversity reception; Error analysis; Fading; MIMO; Maximum likelihood decoding; Rayleigh channels; Rayleigh scattering; Receiving antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2002.807428

Filename

1159884