Unitary Alamouti code design from APSK signals with fast maximum-likelihood decoding algorithm

Aijun Song*, Genyuan Wang, Weifeng Su, Xiang Gen Xia

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Abstract

Unitary orthogonal space-time codes, constructed from Alamouti's scheme, has the advantage of its fast maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding but it requires signal constellations to be phase shift keying (PSK). In this paper, unitary space-time codes are constructed from Alamouti's scheme with amplitude/phase shift keying (APSK) signal constellations. We show that the unitary space-time codes from Alamouti's scheme with APSK signals have better diversity products than those with PSK signals. Our proposed rate 4 bits/s/Hz code has about 2 dB gain over the one of the same rate but with PSK signals at bit error rate (BER) of 10-3 with one receive antenna. Additionally, our proposed codes have fast ML decoding algorithm, whose complexity is comparable to that of unitary orthogonal space-time codes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)210
Number of pages1
JournalIEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - Proceedings
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 29 Jun 20034 Jul 2003

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