The performance of BLAST with hybrid ARQ in Ricean fading channels

Author

Zheng, Haitao

Author_Institution

Wireless Commun. Res. Dept., Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

901

Abstract

The BLAST architecture provides a physical layer transmission technique that achieves very high spectral efficiencies in rich scattering environments using multiple transmit and multiple receive antennas. We perform a system performance evaluation in term of spectral efficiency where BLAST and hybrid ARQ are combined together. While the previous work is focused on Rayleigh fading channels, we extend it to a general wireless environment with different level of scattering

Keywords

Rician channels; antenna arrays; automatic repeat request; electromagnetic wave scattering; forward error correction; information theory; radiowave propagation; receiving antennas; transmitting antennas; BLAST architecture; Bell Lab Layered Space-Time architecture; FEC coding; Rayleigh fading channels; Ricean fading channels; forward error correction; hybrid ARQ; information-theoretic analysis; instantaneous channel matrix; multi-element antenna arrays; multiple receive antennas; multiple transmit antennas; physical layer transmission; scattering environments; spectral efficiency; system capacity; system performance evaluation; wireless environment; Automatic repeat request; Decoding; Error correction; Fading; Physical layer; Radio transmitters; Rayleigh scattering; Receiving antennas; Redundancy; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956903

Filename

956903