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Omnidirectional Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coded Massive MIMO Systems

Signal Processing 2019-05-03 v2

Abstract

Common signals in public channels of cellular systems are usually transmitted omnidirectionally from the base station (BS). In recent years, both discrete and consecutive omnidirectional space-time block codings (STBC) have been proposed for massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with a uniform linear array (ULA) configuration to ensure cell-wide coverage. In these systems, constant received signal power at discrete angles, or constant received signal sum power in a few consecutive time slots at any angle is achieved. In addition, equal-power transmission per antenna and full spatial diversity can be achieved as well. In this letter, by utilizing the property of orthogonal complementary codes (OCCs), a new consecutive omnidirectional quasi-orthogonal STBC (QOSTBC) design is proposed, in which constant received sum power at any angle can be realized with equal-power transmission per antenna through one STBC transmission, and a higher diversity order of 4 can be achieved. In addition, the proposed design can be further extended to the uniform planar array (UPA) configuration with the two-dimensional OCCs.

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@article{arxiv.1810.11312,
  title  = {Omnidirectional Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coded Massive MIMO Systems},
  author = {Can Liu and Xiang-Gen Xia and Yongzhao Li and Xiqi Gao and Hailin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.11312},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to IEEE communication letter

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