Generally Dimensional and Constellation Expansion Free Space–Time Block Codes for QAM With Full Diversity

  • Authors:
  • Ming-Yang Chen;Chiang-Yu Chen;Hua-Chieh Li;Soo-Chang Pei;Hsuan-Jung Su

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This correspondence presents new rate-1 space-time block codes (STBCs) attending full diversity over every quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) constellation when the number of Tx antennas is a power of two. From the simulation results, our design performs very closely to the quasi-orthogonal code with constellation rotation over 4-QAM and 16-QAM in the case of four Tx antennas over quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels. Moreover, the proposed codes would not cause any constellation expansion over QAM symbols in contrast with the quasi-orthogonal codes with constellation rotations