Khatri-Rao space-time codes

  • Authors:
  • N.D. Sidiropoulos;R.S. Budampati

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Space-time (ST) coding techniques exploit the spatial diversity afforded by multiple transmit and receive antennas to achieve reliable transmission in scattering-rich environments. ST block codes are capable of realizing full diversity and spatial coding gains at relatively low rates; ST trellis codes can achieve better rate-diversity tradeoffs at the cost of high complexity. On the other hand, V-BLAST supports high rates but has no built-in spatial coding and does not work well with fewer receive than transmit antennas. We propose a novel linear block coding scheme based on the Khatri-Rao matrix product. The proposed scheme offers flexibility for achieving full-rate or full-diversity, or a desired rate-diversity tradeoff, and it can handle any transmit/receive antenna configuration or signal constellation. The proposed codes are shown to have numerous desirable properties, including guaranteed unique linear decodability, built-in blind channel identifiability, and efficient near-maximum likelihood decoding.