Abstract
In this paper, we show that the diversity products of the full transmit diversity space-time block codes proposed by Lu-Kumar (we call them Lu-Kumar's codes) with quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM) constellations are lower bounded by 4. We present a sufficient condition on the minimum Hamming weight of the linear binary full-rank space-time code such that this lower bound is met. We show that the special Lu-Kumar codes does satisfy the sufficient condition, and therefore, the diversity products of the special Lu-Kumar codes are 4, where "special"means that the linear binary full-rank space-time codes are not general but specially constructed by Lu-Kumar.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 564-568 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
Volume | 55 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Diversity product
- Full transmit diversity spacetime block codes
- Hamming weight
- Lu-Kumar codes