Space-time coding with maximum diversity gains over frequency-selective fading channels

Author

Zhou, Shengli ; Giannakis, Georgios B.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA

Volume

8

Issue

10

fYear

2001

Firstpage

269

Lastpage

272

Abstract

We study space-time (ST) block coding for single carrier zero-padded (ZP) block transmissions through finite impulse response (FIR) multipath fading channels of order L. We prove that the maximum diversity of order 2(L+1) is achieved with two transmit and one receive antenna. Simulations demonstrate that joint exploitation of multi-antenna diversity and multipath diversity leads to significantly enhanced performance.

Keywords

block codes; channel coding; diversity reception; fading channels; multipath channels; receiving antennas; time-varying channels; transient response; transmitting antennas; FIR multipath fading channels; channel coding; finite impulse response; frequency-selective fading channels; maximum diversity gain; multi-antenna diversity; multipath diversity; receive antenna; simulations; space-time block coding; time-varying channels; transmit antenna; Block codes; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Finite impulse response filter; Frequency-selective fading channels; Multipath channels; OFDM; Receiving antennas; Scattering; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Signal Processing Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-9908

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/97.957268

Filename

957268