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Utilizing Space-Time Diversity for Wireless Communications

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In this paper we consider the use of multiple antennas for wireless communication over fading channels.The fading we consider is quasi-static flat Rayleigh fading. For such a scenario optimal SNR schemes are derived when the transmitter knows the channel and when the transmitter does not know the channel. But in both cases the receiver has to estimate the channel. When the SNR during channel estimation is reasonably high we derive expressions to show the impact of channel estimation errors on SNR.

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Ganesan, G., Stoica, P. Utilizing Space-Time Diversity for Wireless Communications. Wireless Personal Communications 18, 149–163 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011238326358

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