Block-Level Unitary Query: Enabling Orthogonal-Like Space-Time Code With Query Diversity for MIMO Backscatter RFID

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1937-1949

  He, Chen ^a,b   Wang, Z Jane ^a   Miao, Chunyan ^b   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

bistatic; diversity method; dyadic backscatter; MIMO; RFID; space time coding (STC)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BLOCK CODES; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECODING; ITERATIVE DECODING; MIMO SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODING (STBC);

BISTATIC; DIVERSITY METHOD; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; ORTHOGONAL SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE PROPERTIES; SPACE TIME CODING;

SPACE TIME CODES;

EID: 84963537164     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2015.2497240     Document Type: Article

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