Space-time block coding for frequency-selective channels

We describe the so-called time-reversal space-time block coding (TR-STBC) transmission scheme for communication systems with multiple transmit antennas operating over frequency-selective channels. TR-STBC can be seen as an extension of the orthogonal space-time block codes for flat fading channels. We show that using TR-STBC, a linear filtering at the receiver can achieve an approximate decoupling of the space-time channel into scalar and independent frequency-selective channels and hence any standard maximum-likelihood sequence detector (MLSD) can be used for equalization. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the performance of the TR-STBC transmission scheme.

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