Error analysis of space-time codes for slow Rayleigh fading channels

Author

Behnamfar, Firouz ; Alajaji, Fady ; Linder, Tamás

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Canada

fYear

2003

fDate

29 June-4 July 2003

Firstpage

12

Abstract

A communication system which employs L_T transmit and L_R receive antennas is considered. The channel is assumed to be quasistatic Rayleigh flat fading. It is assumed that only the receiver has knowledge of the path gains. The additive noise at receiver j at symbol interval t, N^j_t, is assumed to be complex Gaussian with i.i.d. real and imaginary parts. We consider the pairwise error probability (PEP) of space-time orthogonal block (STOB) codes, and then generalize the solution to space-time trellis (STT) codes, linear dispersion (LD) codes, and BLAST with ML decoding.

Keywords

AWGN; Rayleigh channels; block codes; error analysis; error statistics; linear codes; maximum likelihood decoding; receiving antennas; space-time codes; transmitting antennas; trellis codes; BLAST; ML decoding; additive noise; communication system; complex Gaussian; linear dispersion code; pairwise error probability; path gain; quasistatic Rayleigh flat fading; receive antenna; slow Rayleigh fading channel; space-time code error analysis; space-time orthogonal block code; space-time trellis code; symbol interval; transmit antenna; Bit error rate; Decoding; Error analysis; Fading; Laplace equations; Mathematics; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Space time codes; Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Theory, 2003. Proceedings. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7728-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIT.2003.1228026

Filename

1228026