An Orthogonal Full Rate Full Diversity Space Time Block Code for Four Transmit Antenna Systems

Author

Yang, Ning ; Salehi, Masoud

Author_Institution

Northeastern Univ., Boston

fYear

2007

Firstpage

763

Lastpage

767

Abstract

We present a new space-time block code (STBC) that is orthogonal, full rate and achieves full diversity for four transmit antennas when a special "triple-QPSK" modulation is used. The performance of this STBC is evaluated by Monte Carlo simulation and union bounding techniques. The pairwise error probability is presented. The analytical results match very well with the simulation results at reasonable signal to noise ratios (SNR). The performance of this STBC using the "triple-QPSK" is better than that of the conventional STBC.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; antenna arrays; block codes; error statistics; quadrature phase shift keying; space-time codes; Monte Carlo simulation; STBC; four transmit antenna systems; orthogonal full rate full diversity space time block code; pairwise error probability; signal to noise ratios; triple-QPSK modulation; union bounding techniques; Bit error rate; Block codes; Constellation diagram; Maximum likelihood decoding; Modulation coding; Receiving antennas; Signal analysis; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC-2007 Fall. 2007 IEEE 66th

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0263-2

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2007.169

Filename

4349818