A New Full Rate Space Time Block Code for Three Transmit Antenna Systems

Author

Yang, Ning ; Salehi, Masoud

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

We propose a new space-time block code for three transmit antennas using a special modulation scheme, called "twin QPSK". This space-time block code has rate one and achieves significant diversity gain that is close to full diversity when used with "twin QPSK" modulation. The decoder detects the transmitted symbols in pairs. The performance of this space- time block code is compared with the performance of other space-time block codes. It is observed that this code achieves better performance than conventional space-time block codes.

Keywords

antenna arrays; block codes; decoding; diversity reception; error statistics; quadrature phase shift keying; space-time codes; BER; decoding method; diversity gain; full rate space time block code; transmit antenna system; transmitted symbol detection; twin QPSK modulation scheme; wireless communication; Bit error rate; Block codes; Diversity methods; Maximum likelihood decoding; Modulation coding; Quadrature phase shift keying; Receiving antennas; Signal to noise ratio; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0062-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0063-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCF.2006.89

Filename

4109354