High-rate, 2-group ML-decodable STBCs for 2m transmit antennas

  • Authors:
  • K. Pavan Srinath;B. Sundar Rajan

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept of ECE, Indian Institute of science, Bangalore, India;Dept of ECE, Indian Institute of science, Bangalore, India

  • Venue:
  • ISIT'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Symposium on Information Theory - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A Space-Time Block Code (STBC) in K--variables is said to be g-Group ML-Decodable (GMLD) if its Maximum-Likelihood (ML) decoding metric can be written as a sum of g independent terms, with each term being a function of a subset of the K variables. In this paper, a construction method to obtain high-rate, 2-GMLD STBCs for 2m transmit antennas, m 1, is presented. The rate of the STBC obtained for 2m transmit antennas is 2m-2+1/2m complex symbols per channel use. The design method is illustrated for the case of 4 and 8 transmit antennas. The code obtained for 4 transmit antennas is equivalent to the rate-5/4 Quasi-Orthogonal design (QOD) proposed by Yuen, Guan and Tjung.