Diagonal Algebraic Space Time Coding with 8-Star-PSK Signals

Pingyi FAN  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E87-B   No.8   pp.2182-2188
Publication Date: 2004/08/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Fundamental Theories
Keyword: 
space time coding,  algebraic coding,  Rayleigh fading channel,  multiple antennas,  

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Summary: 
Diagonal algebraic space time (DAST) block codes was proved to achieve the full transmit diversity over a quasi-static fading channel and to maintain 1 symbol/s/Hz. When the number of transmit antennas employed is larger than 2, DAST codes outperform the codes from orthogonal design with the equivalent spectral efficiency. However, due to the limitation on the signal constellation with complex integer points, no good 3bits/symbol DAST block code was given previously. In this paper, we propose a general form of 8-star-PSK constellations with integer points and present some theoretical results on the performance of the equivalent 8-star-PSK modulations. By using our proposed 8-star-PSKs, we present a searching algorithm to construct DAST codes with 3 bits per symbol under some criteria and investigate their performances over flat Rayleigh fading channels. It is shown that (5,2) 8-star-PSK scheme has a comparable performance to conventional 8PSK over additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel and the corresponding DSAT codes constructed can achieve significant performance gain over flat Rayleigh fading channel.