Single-carrier space-time block-coded transmissions over frequency-selective fading channels

  • Authors:
  • Shengli Zhou;G. B. Giannakis

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

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We study space-time block coding for single-carrier block transmissions over frequency-selective multipath fading channels. We propose novel transmission schemes that achieve a maximum diversity of order NtNr(L+1) in rich scattering environments, where Nt (Nr) is the number of transmit (receive) antennas, and L is the order of the finite impulse response (FIR) channels. We show that linear receiver processing collects full antenna diversity, while the overall complexity remains comparable to that of single-antenna transmissions over frequency-selective channels. We develop transmissions enabling maximum-likelihood optimal decoding based on Viterbi's ( 1998) algorithm, as well as turbo decoding. With single receive and two transmit antennas, the proposed transmission format is capacity achieving. Simulation results demonstrate that joint exploitation of space-multipath diversity leads to significantly improved performance in the presence of frequency-selective fading channels.