Performance Comparison of Detection Methods for Combined STBC and SM Systems

Xuan Nam TRAN
Huan Cong HO
Tadashi FUJINO
Yoshio KARASAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E91-B    No.6    pp.1734-1742
Publication Date: 2008/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.6.1734
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on 2007 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation)
Category: Smart Antennas & MIMO
Keyword: 
transmit diversity,  spatial division multiplexing,  STBC,  alamouti scheme,  

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Summary: 
This paper considers detection schemes for the combined space-time block coding and spatial multiplexing (STBC-SM) transmission systems. We propose a symbol detection scheme which allows to extend the limit on the number of transmit antennas imposed by the previous group detection scheme. The proposed scheme allows to double multiplexing gain as well as provides better bit error rate (BER) performance over the group detection scheme. It is shown that the proposed QR-SIC (combined QR-decomposition and successive interference cancellation) symbol detector provides good trade-off between the BER and computational complexity performance and, thus, is the most suitable detector for the combined STBC-SM system.