The demand for mobile communication systems with high data rates has dramatically increased in recent years. New methods are necessary to satisfy this huge communications demand, exploiting the limited resources of bandwidth and power [1]. Multi-input...
The demand for mobile communication systems with high data rates has dramatically increased in recent years. New methods are necessary to satisfy this huge communications demand, exploiting the limited resources of bandwidth and power [1]. Multi-input multi output (MIMO) systems with multiple antenna elements at both link ends are an efficient solution for future wireless communications systems as they provide high data rates by exploiting the spatial domain under the constraints of limited bandwidth and transmit power. Space-Time Block Coding (STBC) is a MIMO transmit strategy which exploits transmit diversity and high reliability.
STBC can be divided into two main classes, namely Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (O-STBC) and Non-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (NO-STBC). The Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Codes (QO-STBC) belong to a class of NO-STBC and have been an intensive area of research. The O-STBC can achieve full diversity with low decoding complexity. However, full data rate is achievable in connection with full diversity only in the case of two antennas with complex-valued symbol transmission. For more than two transmit antennas full date rate can be achieved with QO-STBC with a loss of the diversity gain. In addition, the quasi-orthogonal coding schemes are generally more complex, especially for decoding, in order to get reasonable performance, the computational cost of the detection step has to be increased compared to that of an orthogonal scheme.
In this thesis two novel ideas are proposed for rate-one QO-STBC scheme. The first idea is using selective antenna scheme, while the second idea is designing an orthogonal channel matrix.