Title :
Performance of Space-Time Block Coding-based system in an underground gold mine
Author :
Boualleg, Samira ; Ghanem, K. ; Haraoubia, B. ; Nedil, Mourad ; Azzeddine, Salim ; Kandil, Nahi ; Denidni, Tayeb Ahmed
Author_Institution :
Center of Dev. of Adv. Tech. (CDTA), Canada
Abstract :
Using space time block coding (STBC) to enhance the communication quality in underground environments may be of great interest. In this paper, by the aid of the simple maximum likelihood algorithm at the reception, the bit error rate performance of STBC scheme is investigated on a 2× 2 MIMO system within an underground gold mine environment. Taking Rayleigh channel as a reference, the performance in the specific indoor environment is compared to the SISO case when using BPSK and QPSK modulations.
Keywords :
MIMO communication; Rayleigh channels; error statistics; maximum likelihood estimation; phase shift keying; space-time block codes; BPSK modulations; MIMO system; QPSK modulations; Rayleigh channel; SISO case; STBC scheme; bit error rate performance; simple maximum likelihood algorithm; space-time block coding-based system; underground gold mine; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Bit error rate; Frequency measurement; MIMO; Modulation; Rayleigh channels;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Memphis, TN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3538-3
DOI :
10.1109/APS.2014.6904460
