Effect of MMSE channel estimation on BER performance of orthogonal space-time block codes in Rayleigh fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1242-1245

  Jacobs, Lennert ^a   Moeneclaey, Marc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Channel estimation; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO); Orthogonal space time block codes (OSTBCs); Rayleigh fading

Indexed keywords

BER EXPRESSION; BER PERFORMANCE; BIT ERROR RATE (BER); BLOCK FADING; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO); ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES; ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES (OSTBCS); RAYLEIGH;

BIT ERROR RATE; BLOCK CODES; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ESTIMATION; FADING CHANNELS; INFORMATION THEORY; MULTIPLEXING; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

RAYLEIGH FADING;

EID: 66849089386     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.05.070455     Document Type: Article

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