max-dmin precoder performances in a polarization diversity MIMO channel

This study deals with three transmission schemes because of their ability to achieve the maximum diversity order. Two of them are systems using the full channel state information at the transmitter side (Tx- CSI), i.e. the max-d_min precoder (maximization of minimum Euclidean distance (d_min) and max-SNR precoder (maximization of the received signal-to-noise ratio), whereas the last one is the Alamouti scheme belonging to the orthogonal space-time block code family which needs no Tx-CSI. Their performances are compared by using a dual-polarization channel model to take into account polarization diversity, transmit/receive correlation and estimation errors.