Maximum-likelihood detection of orthogonal space-time block coded OFDM in unknown block fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1637-1649

  Chang, Tsung Hui ^a   Ma, Wing Kin ^b   Chi, Chong Yung ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Blind and semiblind detection; Maximum likelihood detection; MIMO systems; OFDM; Space time block code

Indexed keywords

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; BLOCK CODES; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING CHANNELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

BLIND DETECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD DETECTION; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODE;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 41849102423     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.909229     Document Type: Article

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