Error probability analysis of space-time block coding in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel

Author

Hu, H.J. ; Xu, Zhemin ; Tjhung, T.T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

20-20 March 2003

Firstpage

268

Abstract

A closed form average irreducible bit error rate (AIBER) expression for space-time block coding (STBC) in frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel is derived using the probability distribution of the general quadratic form. A 2 tx/1 rx antenna pair and BPSK modulation are assumed. We extended Alamouti´s decoding algorithm, which is optimum in the flat fading channel, to the frequency selective fading scenario. Our result provides an efficient way to evaluate the effects of selective fading with various forms of power delay profiles (PDP) and pulse shaping on error rate performance of STBC. This is a significant improvement over previous simulation based approach.

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; block codes; decoding; error analysis; error statistics; fading channels; pulse shaping; space-time codes; Alamouti decoding algorithm; BPSK modulation; average irreducible bit error rate expression; error probability analysis; error rate performance; frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel; power delay profiles; probability distribution; pulse shaping; space-time block coding; Binary phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Block codes; Decoding; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Frequency; Probability distribution; Rayleigh channels;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003. WCNC 2003. 2003 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7700-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2003.1200358

Filename

1200358