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

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 July 2014

Firstpage

257

Lastpage

258

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium (APSURSI), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Memphis, TN

ISSN

1522-3965

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3538-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2014.6904460

Filename

6904460