Space-time trellis codes for 4-PSK with three and four transmit antennas in quasi-static flat fading channels

Author

Chen, Zhuo ; Vucetic, Branka S. ; Yuan, Jinhong ; Lo, Ka Leong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia

Volume

6

Issue

2

fYear

2002

Firstpage

67

Lastpage

69

Abstract

It has been established that the appropriate design parameters for space-time trellis code (STTC) in quasi-static flat Rayleigh fading channels are the rank and determinant criteria or the Euclidean distance criterion, depending on the value of the overall diversity gain. We propose two groups of new STTCs with more than two transmit antennas based on these two design criteria, respectively. These new STTCs are shown to achieve large performance improvements over the ones with two transmit antennas.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; diversity reception; matrix algebra; phase shift keying; transmitting antennas; trellis codes; 4-PSK; Euclidean distance criterion; determinant criterion; diversity gain; quasi-static flat Rayleigh fading channels; rank criterion; space-time trellis codes; transmit antennas; AWGN; Australia; Convolutional codes; Diversity methods; Euclidean distance; Fading; MIMO; Quadrature phase shift keying; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4234.984696

Filename

984696