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A Simple Space-Time-Frequency Block Code Scheme for Four Transmit Antennas

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It is well known that the full rate and full diversity complex space-time block code (STBC) is not existed for four transmit antennas. In this letter, we propose a simple quasi-orthogonal space-time-frequency block code (QO-STFBC) scheme with four transmit antennas and n R receive antennas, where every two transmit antennas constitute one group and each group transmits signals over different subcarriers. The receiver can separate the received signals from each group via odd/even index FFT operation. After recombining the separated received signals with received antennas, an equivalent half rate orthogonal STFBC (O-STFBC) can be used for decoding. Thus, the full rate and full diversity are achieved at the transmitter and receiver, respectively. Simulation result shows that the proposed QO-STFBC scheme has better performance than the other schemes, in rate 2 layered Alamouti scheme is about 4 dB, full rate QO-STBC scheme is about 5 dB and half rate O-STBC scheme is about 7 dB at 10−3 BER for the transmission of 2 bits/s/Hz.

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  1. College of Information Technology, Eastern Liaoning University, Dandong, 118003, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Song

  2. Kalasalingam Universiry, Krishnankoil, India

    S. P. Balakannan

  3. Institute of Information and Communication, Chonbuk National University, 664-14 Deokjin-dong, Jeonju, 561-756, Republic of Korea

    Moon Ho Lee

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Correspondence to S. P. Balakannan.

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This work was supported by 2011-02076, China, and R32-2012-000-2014-0, FR 2010-0020942, MEST 2012-002521, NRF, Korea.

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Song, W., Balakannan, S.P. & Lee, M.H. A Simple Space-Time-Frequency Block Code Scheme for Four Transmit Antennas. Wireless Pers Commun 70, 1363–1372 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0753-9

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