Performance Analysis of MIMO Systems using TCM and Comparison with OSTBC

Emerging demands for high data rate services and high spectral efficiency are the key driving forces for the continued technology evolution in wireless communications. MIMO technology has attracted attention in wireless communications, because it offers significant increases in data throughput and link range without additional bandwidth or transmit power. It achieves this by higher spectral efficiency (more bits per second per hertz of bandwidth) and link reliability or diversity (reduced fading). Orthogonal space-time block codes (STBC’s) have received considerable attention in recent open-loop multiple-input-multipleoutput (MIMO) wireless communication because they allow low decoding complexity and guarantee full diversity. Trellis-Coded Modulation (TCM) is a kind of channel coding with improving the coding gain. Therefore, concatenation of STBC and TCM is a combined channel coding to achieve both diversity gain and coding gain advantages. This paper presents a detailed study of space-time block coding (STBC) schemes including orthogonal STBC for 3×4 antennas and high-coding rate STBC. In this paper the performance of OSTBC along with TCM is evaluated using QPSK.