Exact symbol-error probability analysis for orthogonal space-time block codes: two- and higher dimensional constellations cases

Author

Gharavi-Alkhansari, Mohammad ; Gershman, Alex B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Syst., Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

Volume

52

Issue

7

fYear

2004

fDate

7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1068

Lastpage

1073

Abstract

Exact expressions are obtained for the symbol-error probability of orthogonal space-time block codes at the output of the coherent maximum-likelihood decoder in the general case of arbitrary input signal constellation and code. Such expressions are derived for the cases of both deterministic (fixed) and random Rayleigh/Ricean fading channels, and both the two- and higher dimensional constellations.

Keywords

MIMO systems; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; block codes; error statistics; maximum likelihood decoding; space-time codes; MIMO systems; Rayleigh fading channels; Ricean fading channels; exact symbol-error probability analysis; maximum-likelihood decoder; multidimensional constellations; orthogonal space-time block codes; signal constellation; Bit error rate; Block codes; Computer aided software engineering; Constellation diagram; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; MIMO; Maximum likelihood decoding; Multidimensional systems; Exact probability of error; OSTBCs; multidimensional constellations; orthogonal space–time block codes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2004.831411

Filename

1315906