Title : 
Performance analysis of Quasi-orthogonal STBC via antenna selection
         
        
            Author : 
Guo-wei, Lei ; Ming-jie, Zhuang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Sci., Res. Center of Complex Syst., Jimei Univ., Xiamen, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
To achieve full transmission rate, quasi-orthogonal space-time block coding is under research. But its performance still needs to be improved due to complex channel condition. Here we derive its expression for average signal to noise rate and provide a scheme with Quasi-Orthogonal STBC via Antenna Selection, which can improve its performance without extra RF chain.
         
        
            Keywords : 
antennas; block codes; orthogonal codes; space-time codes; antenna selection; quasi-orthogonal STBC; quasi-orthogonal space-time block coding; signal to noise rate; Block codes; Educational institutions; Maximum likelihood decoding; Maximum likelihood detection; Performance analysis; RF signals; Radio frequency; Random variables; Receiving antennas; Transmitting antennas; Antenna Selection; Quasi-orthogonal STBCt;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Communication Systems, 2008. ICCS 2008. 11th IEEE Singapore International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Guangzhou
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2423-8
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2424-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICCS.2008.4737270