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Concatenation of Space-Time Block Codes with ConvolutionalCodes

Multiple antennas help in combating the destructive effects of fading as well as improve the spectral efficiency of a communication system. Receive diversity techniques like maximal ratio receive combining have been popular means of introducing multiple antennas into communication systems. Space-time block codes present a way of introducing transmit diversity into the communication system with similar complexity and performance as maximal ratio receive combining. In this thesis we study the performance of space-time block codes in Rayleigh fading channel. In particular, the quasi-static assumption on the fading channel is removed to study how the space-time block coded system behaves in fast fading. In this context, the complexity versus performance trade-off for a space-time block coded receiver is studied. As a means to improve the performance of space-time block coded systems concatenation by convolutional codes is introduced. The improvement in the diversity order by the introduction of convolutional codes into the space-time block coded system is discussed. A general analytic expression for the error performance of a space-time block coded system is derived. This expression is utilized to obtain general expressions for the error performance of convolutionally concatenated space-time block coded systems utilizing both hard and soft decision decoding. Simulation results are presented and are compared with the analytical results. / Master of Science

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/9724
Date27 February 2004
CreatorsAli, Saajed
ContributorsElectrical and Computer Engineering, Woerner, Brian D., Kachroo, Pushkin, Tranter, William H.
PublisherVirginia Tech
Source SetsVirginia Tech Theses and Dissertation
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
FormatETD, application/pdf
RightsIn Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
RelationETD.pdf

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