Orthogonal design of unitary constellations for uncoded and trellis-coded noncoherent space-time systems

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1319-1327

  Zhao, Wanlun ^a   Leus, Geert ^b,c   Giannakis, Georgios B ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fading channel; Noncoherent; Performance analysis; Space time (ST); Trellis coded modulation (TCM)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIVERSITY RECEPTION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); MATRIX ALGEBRA; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FADING CHANNEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DETECTOR; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE PAIRWISE ERROR ANALYSIS; TRELLIS CODED MODULATION; UNITARY NONCOHERENT SPACE TIME CONSTELLATIONS;

TRELLIS CODES;

EID: 2942648573     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2004.828154     Document Type: Letter

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