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High Data-Rate Single-Symbol ML Decodable Distributed STBCs for Cooperative Networks

Information Theory 2009-08-10 v2 math.IT

Abstract

High data-rate Distributed Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (DOSTBCs) which achieve the single-symbol decodability and full diversity order are proposed in this paper. An upper bound of the data-rate of the DOSTBC is derived and it is approximately twice larger than that of the conventional repetition-based cooperative strategy. In order to facilitate the systematic constructions of the DOSTBCs achieving the upper bound of the data-rate, some special DOSTBCs, which have diagonal noise covariance matrices at the destination terminal, are investigated. These codes are referred to as the row-monomial DOSTBCs. An upper bound of the data-rate of the row-monomial DOSTBC is derived and it is equal to or slightly smaller than that of the DOSTBC. Lastly, the systematic construction methods of the row-monomial DOSTBCs achieving the upper bound of the data-rate are presented.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0609054,
  title  = {High Data-Rate Single-Symbol ML Decodable Distributed STBCs for Cooperative Networks},
  author = {Zhihang Yi and Il-Min Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0609054},
  year   = {2009}
}

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submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

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