Compensation Decoding 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...

A Fast Sphere Decoding Algorithm for Space-Frequency Block Codes

The recently proposed space-frequency-coded MIMO-OFDM systems have promised considerable performance improvement over single-antenna systems. However, in order to make multiantenna OFDM systems an attractive choice for practical applications, implementation issues such as decoding complexitymust be addressed successfully. In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient decoding algorithm ...

Space-time block codes with low maximum-likelihood decoding complexity

The Sphere Decoding Algorithm applied to Space-Time Block Codes

The use of digital wireless communication systems has become more and more common during recent years. A multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) system using Space-Time Coding techniques can be implemented to enhance the capacity of a wireless link. The optimal decoder is based on the maximum likelihood principle. But as the number of the antennas in the system and the data rates increase, the ma...