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Many theories of exploiting spatial diversity in wireless communications and more recently space-time coding are results of understanding the spatial channel models for antenna array communication systems. For example, the models for rich scattering environments assume the channel coefficients to be almost independent when the spacing between the antennas is sufficient. This could limit the possibility of extracting direction of the signal propagation with respect to antenna locations (G. Xu et al., IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 349–355, 1994). On the other hand, when the scattering is limited to few dominant reflectors, the directions of the signals traveling through the environment can prevail in the channel coefficients. Extracting the propagation direction (beam direction) information from the channel coefficients has been investigated extensively in array signal processing literature. These investigations have led to many algorithms of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation and beamforming. Here, we propose a transmit diversity technique that exploits beam directions in environments with few beam directions. While we present this technique for two-beam Rayleigh fading channels (J.E. Mazo, IEEE Transaction on Communication, Vol. 39, No. 7, pp. 1027–1030, 1991), it can be easily extended to multibeam general fading channels. The proposed method does not require feedback from the receiver.
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Torlak, M. Performance of Beamspace Transmit Diversity Technique in Two Beam Rayleigh Fading Channels. Wireless Personal Communications 28, 277–286 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:WIRE.0000033600.02077.8c
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