A SIMPLE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY TECHNIQUE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Authors
ALAMOUTI SM
Citation
Sm. Alamouti, A SIMPLE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY TECHNIQUE FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE journal on selected areas in communications, 16(8), 1998, pp. 1451-1458
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Telecommunications,"Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
IEEE journal on selected areas in communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
07338716
Volume
16
Issue
8
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1451 - 1458
Database
ISI
SICI code
0733-8716(1998)16:8<1451:ASTDTF>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
This paper presents a simple two-branch transmit diversity scheme. Usi ng two transmit antennas and one receive antenna the scheme provides t he same diversity order as maximal-ratio receiver combining (MRRC) wit h one transmit antenna, and two receive antennas. It is also shown tha t the scheme may easily be generalized to two transmit antennas and M receive antennas to provide a diversity order of 2M. The new scheme do es not require any bandwidth expansion any feedback from the receiver to the transmitter and its computation complexity is similar to MRRC.