Constellation Expansion Free Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes on Square Lattice Constellations with Full Diversity and High Coding Gains

Conference: PIMRC 2005 - 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
09/11/2005 - 09/14/2005 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: PIMRC 2005

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Chen, Ming-Yang; Pei, Soo-Chang; Su, Hsuan-Jung (Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106, Republic of China)

Abstract:
This article presents a set of quasi-orthogonal spacetime block codes for four transmit antennas that achieves full diversity and high coding gain whenever a square lattice constellation is adopted. From the simulation results, the new designs perform very closely to quasi-orthogonal codes with constellation rotations. Without a search of the optimal rotation angle and any constellation expansion, our new codes yield an advantageous transmission scheme for QPSK and 16-QAM modulations.