A Simple Decision-Feedback Block Differential Detection Scheme for DSTBC

For differential space-time block coding (DSTBC), this paper proposes a simple decision-feedback block differential detection (DFBDD) scheme with small computational complexity, in order to improve tracking capability on fast time-varying fading channels. Decisions can be derived directly without computation of metrics in the proposed DFBDD. It can also employ higher-order channel prediction, which needs neither complex trellis search algorithms nor complex channel prediction recursive algorithms. Finally, computer simulation results confirm that the proposed DFBDD with higher-order channel prediction has higher tracking capability at low computational complexity than the conventional block differential detection without channel prediction.