• DocumentCode
    887314
  • Title

    A novel power allocation scheme for orthogonal space-time block code systems

  • Author

    Fu, Jingxing ; Kim, Young-Hak ; Park, Yun-Sang ; Wang, Jing

  • Author_Institution
    Beijing Samsung Telecommun. Res., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • Volume
    10
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    272
  • Lastpage
    274
  • Abstract
    In this letter, we propose a novel power allocation scheme among transmit antennas to combat channel fading in orthogonal space-time block code systems based on the metric, amount of fading, which can be used to evaluate the severity of channel fading. Simulation results show that the proposed method can improve the fading-combating performance of orthogonal space-time block code systems significantly.
  • Keywords
    block codes; channel allocation; fading channels; space-time codes; transmitting antennas; fading channel; orthogonal space-time block code system; power allocation scheme; transmitting antenna; Antennas and propagation; Array signal processing; Block codes; Design optimization; Fading; Linear antenna arrays; Nakagami distribution; Statistics; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2006.1613744
  • Filename
    1613744