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Four-Group Decodable Space-Time Block Codes

Information Theory 2016-11-17 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Two new rate-one full-diversity space-time block codes (STBC) are proposed. They are characterized by the \emph{lowest decoding complexity} among the known rate-one STBC, arising due to the complete separability of the transmitted symbols into four groups for maximum likelihood detection. The first and the second codes are delay-optimal if the number of transmit antennas is a power of 2 and even, respectively. The exact pair-wise error probability is derived to allow for the performance optimization of the two codes. Compared with existing low-decoding complexity STBC, the two new codes offer several advantages such as higher code rate, lower encoding/decoding delay and complexity, lower peak-to-average power ratio, and better performance.

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@article{arxiv.0707.3959,
  title  = {Four-Group Decodable Space-Time Block Codes},
  author = {Dung Ngoc Dao and Chau Yuen and Chintha Tellambura and Yong Liang Guan and Tjeng Thiang Tjhung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3959},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

1 figure. Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing

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