Blind ML detection of orthogonal space-time block codes: Identifiability and code construction

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 7 I, 2007, Pages 3312-3324

  Ma, Wing Kin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Blind and semiblind detection; Blind identifiability; Decoding; Maximum likelihood detection; Performance analysis; Space time block code

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BINARY PHASE SHIFT KEYING; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROBABILITY; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

BLIND MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD (ML) DETECTION; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES;

BLOCK CODES;

EID: 34347402588     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.894394     Document Type: Article

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