Capacity and error probability analysis for orthogonal space-time block codes over fading channels

Author

Zhang, Hao ; Gulliver, T. Aaron

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, BC, Canada

Volume

4

Issue

2

fYear

2005

fDate

3/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

808

Lastpage

819

Abstract

The capacity and error probability of orthogonal space-time block codes (STBCs) are considered for pulse-amplitude modulation/phase shift keying/quadrature-amplitude modulation (PAM/PSK/QAM) in fading channels. The approach is based on an equivalent scalar additive white Gaussian noise channel with a channel gain proportional to the Frobenius norm of the matrix channel for the STBC. Using this effective channel, capacity and probability of error expressions are derived for PSK/PAM/QAM modulation with space-time block coding. Rayleigh-, Ricean-, and Nakagami-fading channels are considered. As an application, these results are extended to obtain the capacity and probability of error for a multiuser direct sequence code-division multiple-access system employing space-time block coding.

Keywords

AWGN channels; Rayleigh channels; Rician channels; block codes; code division multiple access; error statistics; matrix algebra; phase shift keying; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; space-time codes; spread spectrum communication; Frobenius norm; Nakagami-fading channel; Rayleigh fading channel; Ricean fading channel; error probability analysis; matrix channel; multiuser direct sequence code-division multiple-access system; orthogonal space-time block code; phase shift keying; pulse-amplitude modulation; quadrature-amplitude modulation; scalar additive white Gaussian noise channel; Block codes; Capacity planning; Channel capacity; Error analysis; Error probability; Fading; Modulation coding; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Pulse modulation; Code division multiple access (CDMA); Rayleigh channels; Ricean channels; fading channels; information rates; phase shift keying; pulse amplitude modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2005.844149

Filename

1413246