Successive interference cancelation for space-time block codes over time-selective channels

L. Y Song, Alister G. Burr

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Abstract

In this letter, we propose a very simple successive interference cancelation (SIC) based signal detector for space-time block codes (STBC) to combat time-selective fading. The main idea is to treat un-detected symbols as noise using a Gaussian approximation. Simulation results show that our scheme can provide performance very close to ML decoding with extremely low computational complexity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)837-839
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Communications Letters
Volume10
Issue number12
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2006

Keywords

  • space-time block codes
  • frequency-selective fading channels
  • successive interference cancellation
  • maximum likelihood detection
  • SYSTEMS

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