• DocumentCode
    1430524
  • Title

    A Low Complexity Decoder for Quasi-Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes

  • Author

    Alabed, Samer J. ; Paredes, Javier M. ; Gershman, Alex B.

  • Author_Institution
    Commun. Syst. Group, Darmstadt Univ. of Technol., Darmstadt, Germany
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    3/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    988
  • Lastpage
    994
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a low-complexity suboptimal decoder for coherent and non-coherent quasi-orthogonal space time block codes with three and four transmit antennas is proposed. Our decoder enjoys a nearly linear complexity and approximately the same performance as the optimal maximum-likelihood (ML) decoder. Simulations show the advantages of the proposed decoder with respect to several other popular approaches to the coherent and non-coherent decoding.
  • Keywords
    antenna arrays; computational complexity; maximum likelihood decoding; orthogonal codes; space-time block codes; transmitting antennas; ML decoder; coherent decoding; linear complexity; low-complexity decoder; noncoherent decoding; optimal maximum-likelihood decoder; quasiorthogonal space time block codes; transmit antennas; Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems; differential space-time coding (DSTC); low decoding complexity; quasi-orthogonal space time block codes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1276
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TWC.2011.010411.101263
  • Filename
    5692894