A novel signaling scheme for blind unique identification of Alamouti space-time block-coded channel

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 6 I, 2007, Pages 2570-2582

  Zhou, Lin ^a,b   Zhang, Jian Kang ^b   Wong, Kon Max ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Alamouti space time block code (STBC); Blind unique identification; Coprime; Linear Diophantine equation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL ESTIMATION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; POLYNOMIALS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ALAMOUTI SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE; BLIND UNIQUE IDENTIFICATION; LINEAR DIOPHANTINE EQUATION; SEMIDEFINITE RELAXATION (SDR) ALGORITHM;

BLOCK CODES;

EID: 34249778977     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.890903     Document Type: Article

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