275 research outputs found
Space Frequency Codes from Spherical Codes
A new design method for high rate, fully diverse ('spherical') space
frequency codes for MIMO-OFDM systems is proposed, which works for arbitrary
numbers of antennas and subcarriers. The construction exploits a differential
geometric connection between spherical codes and space time codes. The former
are well studied e.g. in the context of optimal sequence design in CDMA
systems, while the latter serve as basic building blocks for space frequency
codes. In addition a decoding algorithm with moderate complexity is presented.
This is achieved by a lattice based construction of spherical codes, which
permits lattice decoding algorithms and thus offers a substantial reduction of
complexity.Comment: 5 pages. Final version for the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on
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Algebraic number theory and code design for Rayleigh fading channels
Algebraic number theory is having an increasing impact in code design for many different coding applications, such as single antenna fading channels and more recently, MIMO systems.
Extended work has been done on single antenna fading channels, and algebraic lattice codes have been proven to be an effective tool. The general framework has been settled in the last ten years and many explicit code constructions based on algebraic number theory are now available.
The aim of this work is to provide both an overview on algebraic lattice code designs for Rayleigh fading channels, as well as a tutorial introduction to algebraic number theory. The basic facts of this mathematical field will be illustrated by many examples and by the use of a computer algebra freeware in order to make it more accessible
to a large audience
Full Diversity Unitary Precoded Integer-Forcing
We consider a point-to-point flat-fading MIMO channel with channel state
information known both at transmitter and receiver. At the transmitter side, a
lattice coding scheme is employed at each antenna to map information symbols to
independent lattice codewords drawn from the same codebook. Each lattice
codeword is then multiplied by a unitary precoding matrix and sent
through the channel. At the receiver side, an integer-forcing (IF) linear
receiver is employed. We denote this scheme as unitary precoded integer-forcing
(UPIF). We show that UPIF can achieve full-diversity under a constraint based
on the shortest vector of a lattice generated by the precoding matrix . This constraint and a simpler version of that provide design criteria for
two types of full-diversity UPIF. Type I uses a unitary precoder that adapts at
each channel realization. Type II uses a unitary precoder, which remains fixed
for all channel realizations. We then verify our results by computer
simulations in , and MIMO using different QAM
constellations. We finally show that the proposed Type II UPIF outperform the
MIMO precoding X-codes at high data rates.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, to appear in IEEE-TW
Golden Space-Time Trellis Coded Modulation
In this paper, we present a concatenated coding scheme for a high rate
multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system over slow fading
channels. The inner code is the Golden code \cite{Golden05} and the outer code
is a trellis code. Set partitioning of the Golden code is designed specifically
to increase the minimum determinant. The branches of the outer trellis code are
labeled with these partitions. Viterbi algorithm is applied for trellis
decoding. In order to compute the branch metrics a lattice sphere decoder is
used. The general framework for code optimization is given. The performance of
the proposed concatenated scheme is evaluated by simulation. It is shown that
the proposed scheme achieves significant performance gains over uncoded Golden
code.Comment: 33 pages, 13 figure
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