A quasi-orthogonal STBC design for SC-FDMA in LTE-advanced

In this paper, a class of quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes (Q-STBC) is proposed for systems with 2 antennas and 3 time slots, where the orthogonal Alamouti code can not be applied due to the “odd symbol” problem inherited in the 3GPP frame structure. The proposed codes can achieve rate one and full diversity with lower complexity maximum likelihood detection. The design takes into consideration the signal power fluctuation and minimizes the potential peak-to-average ratio (PAPR) in the transmitted signals. The application to Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) has been investigated further. A transmission scheme is proposed to preserve the good PAPR property of SC-FDMA. In addition, linear and iterative decoding algorithms are proposed to simplify the receiver complexity. Simulations have been conducted to demonstrate the superior performance.