Coding advantage optimization of space-time-frequency block codes

Space-Time Block Codes Versus Space-Frequency Block Codes

— In wireless broadband systems the available time, frequency and spatial diversity can be exploited using complex space-time-frequency codes. However, in order to retain a flexible scheme with low complexity we prefer a concatenated system where a channel code picks up time and frequency diversity and a simple orthogonal design is used to obtain spatial diversity. The channel needs to be const...

Cooperative Orthogonal Space-Time-Frequency Block Codes over a MIMO-OFDM Frequency Selective Channel

In this paper, a cooperative algorithm to improve the orthogonal space-timefrequency block codes (OSTFBC) in frequency selective channels for 2*1, 2*2, 4*1, 4*2 MIMO-OFDM systems, is presented. The algorithm of three node, a source node, a relay node and a destination node is formed, and is implemented in two stages. During the first stage, the destination and the relay antennas receive the sym...

Space-time block codes versus space-time trellis codes

Transmit diversity schemes for the coherent multiple-antenna flat-fading channel range from spacetime block codes (STBC) to space-time trellis codes (STTC). In this letter we compare the performance of STBC and STTC by means of frame error rate. We discover that a simple concatenation of STBC with traditional AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) trellis codes outperforms some of the best known ...

Frequency-Domain Receivers for Rate-1 Space-Time Block Codes

This paper considers iterative frequency-domain receivers for block transmission techniques with rate-1 Space Time Block Coding (STBC) for two and four transmit antennas using both Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and Single-Carrier (SC) schemes. The proposed receiver includes an interference canceller which enhances the performance of the non-orthogonal STBC scheme with 4 tran...

Perfect Space-Time Block Codes