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A New Family of Low-Complexity Decodable STBCs for 4 Transmit Antennas

Jocelyn Fiorina
Hikmet Sari
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In this paper we propose a new construction method for rate-1 Fast-Group-Decodable (FGD) Space-Time-Block Codes (STBC)s for 2^a transmit antennas. We focus on the case of a=2 and we show that the new FGD rate-1 code has the lowest worst-case decoding complexity among existing comparable STBCs. The coding gain of the new rate-1 code is then optimized through constellation stretching and proved to be constant irrespective of the underlying QAM constellation prior to normalization. In a second step, we propose a new rate-2 STBC that multiplexes two of our rate-1 codes by the means of a unitary matrix. A compromise between rate and complexity is then obtained through puncturing our rate-2 code giving rise to a new rate-3/2 code. The proposed codes are compared to existing codes in the literature and simulation results show that our rate-3/2 code has a lower average decoding complexity while our rate-2 code maintains its lower average decoding complexity in the low SNR region at the expense of a small performance loss.

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hal-00747393 , version 1 (31-10-2012)

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Amr Ismail, Jocelyn Fiorina, Hikmet Sari. A New Family of Low-Complexity Decodable STBCs for 4 Transmit Antennas. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Jun 2012, Ottawa, Canada. ⟨10.1109/ICC.2012.6364324⟩. ⟨hal-00747393⟩
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