A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1451-1458

  Alamouti, Siavash M ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a AT and T Wireless Services   (United States)

^b Cadence Design Systems   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS   (United States)

^e MDSI Mobile Data Solutions   (Canada)

^f MPR Teltech   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna array processing; Baseband processing; Diversity; Estimation and detection; Fade mitigation; Maximalratio combining; Rayleigh fading; Smart antennas; Space block coding; Space time coding; Transmit diversity; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; FADING (RADIO); TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

BASEBAND PROCESSING; SMART ANTENNAS; TRANSMIT DIVERSITY;

DIVERSITY RECEPTION;

EID: 0032183752     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.730453     Document Type: Article

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