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Hybrid transmit waveform design based on beamforming and orthogonal space-time block coding

  • G. Dietl
  • , J. Wang
  • , P. Ding
  • , M. D. Zoltowski
  • , D. J. Love
  • , W. Utschick
  • Technical University of Munich
  • Purdue University

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Abstract

In this paper, we derive a hybrid of Beam-Forming (BF) and Space-Time Block Coding (STBC), where the space-time code is transmitted over the beams generated by the steering vectors corresponding to the channel path directions. This is for the practical case where the transmit array may have adequate information on the departure angles of the dominant paths between transmitter and receiver, but unreliable information on the associated complex path gains. We compute analytically the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the proposed hybrid for the specific case of a two-path channel model and using the orthogonal Alamouti code, and compare the result to the SNR of optimal Linear Precoding (LP) and the theoretically possible SNR of Orthogonal STBC (OSTBC). Simulation results show that the performance of the BF/STBC hybrid can be very close to LP - under certain conditions - or even better in the practical case where there are phase estimation errors in the path gain estimates employed at the transmitter.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2005 IEEE ICASSP '05 - Proc. - Design and Implementation of Signal Proces.Syst.,Indust. Technol. Track,Machine Learning for Signal Proces. Education, Spec. Sessions
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
PagesV893-V896
ISBN (Print)0780388747, 9780780388741
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005
Event2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Duration: 18 Mar 200523 Mar 2005

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
VolumeV
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP '05
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhiladelphia, PA
Period18/03/0523/03/05

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