A general method to decode ABBA quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 713-715

  Dào, Dũng Ngoc ^a   Tellambura, Chintha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Quasi orthogonal space time block codes

Indexed keywords

BLOCK CODES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECODING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

ABBA CODES; MINIMUM DECODING COMPLEXITY; QUASI-ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750036657     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2006.060431     Document Type: Article

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