The performance of space-time block codes from coordinate interleaved orthogonal designs over Nakagami-m fading channels

  • Authors:

  • Hoojin Lee;Jeffrey G. Andrews;Robert W. Heath;Edward J. Powers

  • Affiliations:

  • Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX and Wireless Networking and Communications Group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;Wireless Networking and Communications Group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;Wireless Networking and Communications Group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX;Wireless Networking and Communications Group, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Space-time block codes (STBCs) from coordinate interleaved orthogonal designs (CIODs) offer several advantages including full-diversity and single-symbol decodability. In an effort to assess their performance in quasi-static frequency-nonselective i.i.d. Nakagami-m fading channels, we analyze the error rate, outage capacity, and information outage probability. First, based on an accurate closed-form formula for the average symbol pairwise error rate (SPER), we derive tight union upper and lower bounds on the symbol-error rate (SER). Second, we apply Gaussian and Gamma approximations to provide closed-form expressions for the outage capacity. Third, using high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and moment-matching approximation techniques, we also derive accurate closed-form approximations for the information outage probability (IOP). Finally, we show that STBCs from CIODs provide full-diversity by deriving SER-based and IOP-based asymptotic and instantaneous diversity orders. Monte-Carlo simulations show that the analytical results agree with simulation experiments.