A low-complexity precoding transceiver design for double STBC system

A precoding design for double space-time block coding (STBC) system is investigated in this paper, i.e., the joint processing of STBC and dirty paper coding (DPC) techniques. These techniques are used for avoiding dual spatial streams interference and improving the transmitter diversity. The DPC system is interference free on multi-user or multi-antenna. The STBC transceiver can provide the transmit diversity. Due to the benefits about the STBC and DPC system, we propose a new scheme called STBC-DPC system. The transceiver design involves the following procedures. First, the ordering QR decomposition of channel matrix and the maximum likelihood (ML) one-dimensional searching algorithm are proposed to acquire a reliable performance. Next, the channel on/off assignment using water filling algorithm is proposed to overcome the deep fading channel problem. Finally, the STBC-DPC system with the modulus operation to limit the transmit signal level, i.e., Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) scheme, is proposed to retain low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) performance. Simulation results confirm that the proposed STBC-DPC/THP with water filling ML algorithm can provide the low PAPR and excellent bit error rate (BER) performances.