Pragmatic space-time trellis codes: GTF-based design for block fading channels

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2809-2823

  Tralli, Velio ^a,b   Conti, Andrea ^a,b   Chiani, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Block fading channels (BFC); generalized transfer function; performance evaluation; pragmatic space time codes (STC)

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; BLOCK FADING CHANNEL; CODE GENERATORS; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; DESIGN METHODOLOGY; FADING RATE; GENERALIZED TRANSFER FUNCTION; LOW COMPLEXITY ENCODERS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRAGMATIC SPACE-TIME CODES (STC); SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SPACE TIME CODE; SPACE-TIME TRELLIS CODES;

DESIGN; FADING (RADIO); SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRELLIS CODES;

FADING CHANNELS;

EID: 79957500350     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2117421     Document Type: Article

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