To effectively improve capacity on fading channels in the third generation and beyond mobile communication systems that require high quality and capacity, spatial diversity schemes utilizing MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) concepts have been identifie...
To effectively improve capacity on fading channels in the third generation and beyond mobile communication systems that require high quality and capacity, spatial diversity schemes utilizing MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) concepts have been identified as an efficient way of improving the capacity without expanding the bandwidth. Among various MIMO spatial diversity schemes, MRT (Maximum Ratio Transmission) which maximizes signal-to-noise ratio at the reception has been recently proposed. In this paper, we extend the conventional MRT scheme which is restricted to flat fading channels to MIMO multipath fading channels, and analyze the bit error rate performance.