A Robust Detection Scheme of Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes over Very Fast Fading Channels

Donghun YU
Jae Hong LEE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E90-B    No.1    pp.171-175
Publication Date: 2007/01/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e90-b.1.171
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
orthogonal space-time block codes,  space-time coding,  QR-decomposition,  very fast fading channels,  

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Summary: 
This letter proposes a robust detection scheme of orthogonal space-time block codes that face very fast fading channels. The proposed detection scheme employs a QR decomposition on the channel matrix and minimizes noise enhancement and impact of channel estimation errors which occur in a conventional detection scheme. It is shown by simulations that the proposed detection scheme outperforms the conventional detection scheme when the channel fading is very fast.