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Overlapped alamouti codes

  • University of Delaware

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Abstract

In most of the existing space-time code designs, achieving full diversity is based on maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding at the receiver that is usually computationally expensive and may not have soft outputs. In this paper, we propose a novel family of space-time block codes (STBC) that achieves full diversity with a linear receiver, specifically, zero-forcing (ZF) or minimum mean square error (MMSE) receiver. Our newly proposed STBC are constructed by overlapping the 2 × 2 Alamouti code and hence named overlapped Alamouti codes. The new codes are close to orthogonal while their symbol rates can approach 1 for any number of transmit antennas. Simulation results show that overlapped Alamouti codes outperform orthogonal STBC (OSTBC) when the number of transmit antennas is above 4.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE GLOBECOM 2007 - 2007 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Proceedings
Pages2927-2931
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event50th Annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2007 - Washington, DC, United States
Duration: 26 Nov 200730 Nov 2007

Publication series

NameGLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Conference

Conference50th Annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington, DC
Period26/11/0730/11/07

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