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A Novel Construction of Multi-group Decodable Space-Time Block Codes
Complex Orthogonal Design (COD) codes are known to have the lowest detection
complexity among Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs). However, the rate of square
COD codes decreases exponentially with the number of transmit antennas. The
Quasi-Orthogonal Design (QOD) codes emerged to provide a compromise between
rate and complexity as they offer higher rates compared to COD codes at the
expense of an increase of decoding complexity through partially relaxing the
orthogonality conditions. The QOD codes were then generalized with the so
called g-symbol and g-group decodable STBCs where the number of orthogonal
groups of symbols is no longer restricted to two as in the QOD case. However,
the adopted approach for the construction of such codes is based on sufficient
but not necessary conditions which may limit the achievable rates for any
number of orthogonal groups. In this paper, we limit ourselves to the case of
Unitary Weight (UW)-g-group decodable STBCs for 2^a transmit antennas where the
weight matrices are required to be single thread matrices with non-zero entries
in {1,-1,j,-j} and address the problem of finding the highest achievable rate
for any number of orthogonal groups. This special type of weight matrices
guarantees full symbol-wise diversity and subsumes a wide range of existing
codes in the literature. We show that in this case an exhaustive search can be
applied to find the maximum achievable rates for UW-g-group decodable STBCs
with g>1. For this purpose, we extend our previously proposed approach for
constructing UW-2-group decodable STBCs based on necessary and sufficient
conditions to the case of UW-g-group decodable STBCs in a recursive manner.Comment: 12 pages, and 5 tables, accepted for publication in IEEE transactions
on communication
Four-Group Decodable Space-Time Block Codes
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.Comment: 1 figure. Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Signal
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A Fast Decodable Full-Rate STBC with High Coding Gain for 4x2 MIMO Systems
In this work, a new fast-decodable space-time block code (STBC) is proposed.
The code is full-rate and full-diversity for 4x2 multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) transmission. Due to the unique structure of the codeword, the proposed
code requires a much lower computational complexity to provide
maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding performance. It is shown that the ML decoding
complexity is only O(M^{4.5}) when M-ary square QAM constellation is used.
Finally, the proposed code has highest minimum determinant among the
fast-decodable STBCs known in the literature. Simulation results prove that the
proposed code provides the best bit error rate (BER) performance among the
state-of-the-art STBCs.Comment: 2013 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile
Radio Communications (PIMRC), London : United Kingdom (2013
Achieving Low-Complexity Maximum-Likelihood Detection for the 3D MIMO Code
The 3D MIMO code is a robust and efficient space-time block code (STBC) for
the distributed MIMO broadcasting but suffers from high maximum-likelihood (ML)
decoding complexity. In this paper, we first analyze some properties of the 3D
MIMO code to show that the 3D MIMO code is fast-decodable. It is proved that
the ML decoding performance can be achieved with a complexity of O(M^{4.5})
instead of O(M^8) in quasi static channel with M-ary square QAM modulations.
Consequently, we propose a simplified ML decoder exploiting the unique
properties of 3D MIMO code. Simulation results show that the proposed
simplified ML decoder can achieve much lower processing time latency compared
to the classical sphere decoder with Schnorr-Euchner enumeration
A New Low-Complexity Decodable Rate-1 Full-Diversity 4 x 4 STBC with Nonvanishing Determinants
Space-time coding techniques have become common-place in wireless
communication standards as they provide an effective way to mitigate the fading
phenomena inherent in wireless channels. However, the use of Space-Time Block
Codes (STBCs) increases significantly the optimal detection complexity at the
receiver unless the low complexity decodability property is taken into
consideration in the STBC design. In this letter we propose a new
low-complexity decodable rate-1 full-diversity 4 x 4 STBC. We provide an
analytical proof that the proposed code has the Non-Vanishing-Determinant (NVD)
property, a property that can be exploited through the use of adaptive
modulation which changes the transmission rate according to the wireless
channel quality. We compare the proposed code to existing low-complexity
decodable rate-1 full-diversity 4 x 4 STBCs in terms of performance over
quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels, detection complexity and Peak-to-Average
Power Ratio (PAPR). Our code is found to provide the best performance and the
smallest PAPR which is that of the used QAM constellation at the expense of a
slight increase in detection complexity w.r.t. certain previous codes but this
will only penalize the proposed code for high-order QAM constellations.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, and 1 table; IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications, Vol. 10, No. 8, AUGUST 201
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