Improved perfect space-time block codes

Pavan Srinath, K. ; Sundar Rajan, B. (2013) Improved perfect space-time block codes IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 59 (12). pp. 7927-7935. ISSN 0018-9448

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Official URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6587831/

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIT.2013.2280168

Abstract

Perfect space-time block codes (STBCs) are based on four design criteria-full-rateness, nonvanishing determinant, cubic shaping, and uniform average transmitted energy per antenna per time slot. Cubic shaping and transmission at uniform average energy per antenna per time slot are important from the perspective of energy efficiency of STBCs. The shaping criterion demands that the generator matrix of the lattice from which each layer of the perfect STBC is carved be unitary. In this paper, it is shown that unitariness is not a necessary requirement for energy efficiency in the context of space-time coding with finite input constellations, and an alternative criterion is provided that enables one to obtain full-rate (rate of nt complex symbols per channel use for an nt transmit antenna system) STBCs with larger normalized minimum determinants than the perfect STBCs. Further, two such STBCs, one each for 4 and 6 transmit antennas, are presented and they are shown to have larger normalized minimum determinants than the comparable perfect STBCs which hitherto had the best-known normalized minimum determinants.

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Keywords:Space-Time Block Codes; Cyclic Division Algebras; Galois Group; Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems; Nonvanishing Determinant; Shaping Criterion
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