IEEE Transactions on Communications
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One major assumption in all orthogonal space-time block coding (O-STBC) schemes is that the channel remains static over the length of the code word. However, time-selective fading channels do exist, and in such case conventional O-STBC detectors can suffer from a large error floor in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) cases. As a sequel to the authors' previous papers on this subject, this paper aims to eliminate the error floor of the Hi-coded O-STBC system (i = 3 and 4) by employing the techniques of: 1) zero forcing (ZF) and 2) parallel interference cancellation (PIC). It is. shown that for an Hi-coded system the PIC is a much better choice than the ZF in terms of both performance and computational complexity. Compared with the, conventional Hi detector, the PIC detector incurs a moderately higher computational complexity, but this can well be justified by the enormous improvement.