On the blind identifiability of orthogonal space-time block codes from second-order statistics

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 709-722

  Via, Javier ^a   Santamaria, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blind identifiability; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications; Orthogonal space time block codes (OSTBC); Second order statistics (SOS)

Indexed keywords

MIMO SYSTEMS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; STATISTICS;

BLIND IDENTIFIABILITY; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT COMMUNICATIONS; ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES; SECOND-ORDER STATISTICS;

BLOCK CODES;

EID: 39849083776     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2007.913561     Document Type: Article

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