IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
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Improved Decision-Feedback Detection Schemes for STBC over Time-Selective Fading Channels
Cheolkyu SHINHyounkuk KIMHyuncheol PARK
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2008 Volume E91.B Issue 9 Pages 3013-3016

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This letter proposes two efficient decision-feedback (DF) detection schemes for space-time block code (STBC) over time-selective fading channels. The existing DF detection causes error propagation when the first symbol is not detected correctly. However, the proposed detection schemes provide two candidates according to a channel gain or an average log-likelihood ratio (LLR) based selection rule and choose a better candidate for the first symbol. Simulation results show that the proposed detection schemes reduce error propagation and yield significant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain with moderate complexity, compared to the existing DF detection scheme.

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