Performance of space-time coding on fading channels

Author

Yuan, Jinhong ; Vucetic, Branka ; Chen, Zhuo ; Firmanto, Welly

Author_Institution

Sch. of Elec. Eng. & Telecom, New South Wales Univ., Sydney, NSW, Australia

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

153

Abstract

Novel code design criteria for space-time codes on slow Rayleigh fading channels are presented. It is shown that the code performance is dominated by the minimum rank r and the minimum determinant of the codeword distance matrix when the product of the minimum rank r and the number of receive antennas n_R is less than 4, which is consistent with the design criteria derived by Tarokh et al. (see IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol.44, no.2, p.744-65, March 1998). However, when r·n_R is greater than or equal to 4, the code error performance is dominated by the minimum trace of the codeword distance matrix

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; channel coding; error statistics; code design criteria; code performance; codeword distance matrix; error performance; minimum determinant; minimum rank; minimum trace; receive antennas; slow Rayleigh fading channels; space-time codes; AWGN; Australia; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Euclidean distance; Fading; Gaussian noise; Receiving antennas; Space time codes; Telecommunications; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Theory, 2001. Proceedings. 2001 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7123-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIT.2001.936016

Filename

936016