Outage Capacity of OSTBCs over Nakagami-m Fading Channels

Author

Bissias, Nikos ; Efthymoglou, George P. ; Aalo, Valentine A.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Piraeus, Piraeus

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, we derive semi-analytical expressions for the outage probability and the outage capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) over Nakagami-m fading channels. The cases of independent but not necessarily identically distributed channels as well as fully correlated and semi-correlated fading channels are investigated. The derived expressions consist of a single integral which can be easily evaluated numerically. The results may assist the system designer to determine the effects of system and channel parameters on the reliability of the achievable capacity of MIMO-OSTBC systems.

Keywords

MIMO communication; block codes; channel capacity; channel estimation; orthogonal codes; space-time codes; Nakagami-m fading channels; OSTBC; channel parameters; distributed channels; multiple-input multiple-output; orthogonal space-time block codes; outage capacity; outage probability; semi-correlated fading channels; semianalytical expressions; Antennas and propagation; Block codes; Capacity planning; Fading; Land mobile radio; MIMO; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394825

Filename

4394825