Turbo coded space-time unitary matrix differential modulation

Author

Steiner, Avi ; Peleg, Michael ; Shamai, Shlomo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1352

Abstract

Non-coherent communication over the Rayleigh flat fading channel with multiple transmit and receive antenna is investigated. Codes achieving a bit error rate (BER) lower than 10^-4 at bit energy over the noise spectral density ratio (E_b/N₀) of 0.8 to 2.8 dB from the channel capacity limit were found with coding rates of 0.5 to 2.25 bits per channel use. The codes are a serial concatenation of turbo code and a unitary matrix differential modulation code. The receiver is based on a high performance joint iterative decoding of the turbo code and the modulation code. Information theoretic arguments are harnessed to form guidelines for code design and to evaluate performance of the iterative decoder

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; channel coding; concatenated codes; error statistics; iterative decoding; modulation coding; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; turbo codes; BER; Rayleigh flat fading channel; bit energy; bit error rate; channel capacity; code design; coding rates; information theory; iterative decoder; joint iterative decoding; multiple receive antennas; multiple transmit antennas; noise spectral density ratio; noncoherent communication; performance evaluation; receiver; serial turbo code concatenation; space-time unitary matrix differential modulation; turbo coded modulation; unitary matrix differential modulation code; Bit error rate; Concatenated codes; Fading; Iterative decoding; Modulation coding; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas; Turbo codes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Spring. IEEE VTS 53rd

Conference_Location

Rhodes

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6728-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2001.944607

Filename

944607