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Paper:SPCOM-L5.2
Session:Space-Time Coding
Time:Thursday, May 20, 15:50 - 16:10
Presentation: Lecture
Topic: Signal Processing for Communications: Space-Time Coding and Transmit Diversity
Title: LINEAR SPACE-TIME PRECODING FOR RICIAN FADING MISO CHANNELS
Authors: Mai Vu; Stanford University 
 Robin Evans; University of Melbourne 
 Arogyaswami Paulraj; Stanford University 
Abstract: We study a space-time precoding technique for MISO wireless systems by employing a linear prefilter at each transmit antenna. The channel is Rician fading, where the mean and variance of the propagation paths are known to the transmitter. This model includes the Rayleigh fading channels as special cases. We use channel capacity as the optimizing criterion for the prefilter design. This criterion provides a unified design of the prefilters for both Rician and Rayleigh fading channels. The optimum prefilters are functions of the channel mean and variance. The solution ranges from beamforming for Rician channels with high K-factor, to unitary diversity for Rayleigh fading cases, where delay diversity is an example. MMSE equalizer is then used to detect the signal at the receiver. Analysis of bounds on error rate performance and numerical simulations for 4QAM input signal show significant diversity gains and array gains. The results also illustrate that having partial channel knowledge at the transmitter can strongly enhance the system performance.
 
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