• DocumentCode
    2390902
  • Title

    Multiple-antenna signal constellations for fading channels

  • Author

    Agrawal, Dakshi ; Richardon, T.J. ; Urbanke, Rüdiger

  • Author_Institution
    Coordinated Sci. Lab., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    365
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we design multiple-antenna signal constellations for a Rayleigh flat-fading channel unknown to the receiver. It is shown that good signal constellations correspond to packings with large minimum distances in complex Grassmannian space. We describe a numerical optimization procedure for finding such packings. The corresponding signal constellations improve significantly upon previously best-known signal constellations
  • Keywords
    Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; antenna theory; optimisation; Rayleigh flat-fading channel; complex Grassmannian space; fading channels; multiple-antenna signal constellations; numerical optimization procedure; packings; Constellation diagram; Fading; Minimization methods; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Signal design; Transmitting antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Theory, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Sorrento
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5857-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISIT.2000.866663
  • Filename
    866663