Full-Rate Complex Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code for Multiple Antennas

In this paper, full-rate and complex orthogonal space-time block code (STBC) schemes for multiple antennas are proposed, and turbo code is employed as channel coding to improve the proposed STBC schemes performance further. Compared with full-diversity multiple antennas STBC schemes, the proposed schemes can implement full data rate, partial diversity and a smaller complexity. On the condition of the same system throughput and concatenation of turbo code, the proposed schemes have lower bit error rate (BER) than those low-rate and full-diversity code schemes.This work is supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under grant No. 2005038242 and Chinese Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds. Xiangbin Yu received the M.S degrees in Communication and Information Systems from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, in 2001; and his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems in 2004 from National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory at Southeast University, China. Now he is working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Information and Communication Engineering Postdoctoral Research Station at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. His research interests include multi-carrier digital communication, space-time coding, adaptive modulation and digital signal processing in communications. DaZhuan Xu received the M.S degrees and Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems from Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1986 and 2001, respectively. He is now a full professor in College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. Prof. Xu is a Senior Member of China Institute of Electronics (CIE). His research interests include digital communications, soft radio, coding theory, medical signal processing. Guangguo Bi was graduated from Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China, in 1960. He is now a professor in the Department of Radio Engineering of Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Prof. Bi is a fellow and a member of the board of Director of the China Institute of Communications, and a senior member of IEEE. His research interests include digital communications, personal communications network, spread spectrum communications, and intelligent information processing. He has published more than 200 papers in above areas.