Error performance analysis of space-time codes over Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Uysal, Murat ; Georghiades, Costas N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2285

Abstract

Space-time coding is a bandwidth and power efficient method of communication over fading channels that realizes the benefits of multiple transmit and receive antennas. This novel technique has attracted much attention. However, currently the only analytical guide to the performance of space-time codes is an upper bound which could be quite loose in many cases. In this paper, an exact pairwise error probability is derived for space-time codes operating over Rayleigh fading channels. Based on this expression, an analytical estimate for the bit error probability is computed, taking into account dominant error events. Simulation results indicate that the estimates are of high accuracy in a broad range of signal-to-noise ratios

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; codes; error statistics; Rayleigh fading channels; SNR; bandwidth efficient method; bit error probability; error performance analysis; exact pairwise error probability; multiple receive antennas; multiple transmit antennas; power efficient method; signal-to-noise ratio; simulation results; space-time codes; upper bound; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Error probability; Fading; Pairwise error probability; Performance analysis; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Space time codes; Upper bound;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2000. IEEE-VTS Fall VTC 2000. 52nd

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6507-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2000.883269

Filename

883269