A novel Alamouti transmission technique via a single RF source and a miniaturized antenna system

A novel space-time transmission technique that emulates Alamouti code with a single RF source is proposed in this paper. An orthogonal block of two BPSK signals is transmitted over a duration of two symbol periods by exciting one RF port of a two-element antenna system every symbol period while terminating the other port with its matching impedance. Besides the orthogonality of the signals, the array far-field is a linear mixture of two orthonormal basis functions onto which the BPSK signals are mapped, hence independent fading among the signals is almost always guaranteed.