A New Family of Unitary Space-Time Codes with a Fast Parallel Sphere Decoder Algorithm

Details A New Family of Unitary Space-Time Codes with a Fast Parallel Sphere Decoder Algorithm A New Family of Unitary Space-Time Codes with a Fast Parallel Sphere Decoder Algorithm

2007-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/0707.0799v1

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, pp. 115-140, January 2006

Computer Science

Information Theory

66 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

In this paper we propose a new design criterion and a new class of unitary signal constellations for differential space-time modulation for multiple-antenna systems over Rayleigh flat-fading channels with unknown fading coefficients. Extensive simulations show that the new codes have significantly better performance than existing codes. We have compared the performance of our codes with differential detection schemes using orthogonal design, Cayley differential codes, fixed-point-free group codes and product of groups and for the same bit error rate, our codes allow smaller signal to noise ratio by as much as 10 dB. The design of the new codes is accomplished in a systematic way through the optimization of a performance index that closely describes the bit error rate as a function of the signal to noise ratio. The new performance index is computationally simple and we have derived analytical expressions for its gradient with respect to constellation parameters. Decoding of the proposed constellations is reduced to a set of one-dimensional closest point problems that we solve using parallel sphere decoder algorithms. This decoding strategy can also improve efficiency of existing codes.

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