A cross-layer design over MIMO Rayleigh fading channels

The combination of adaptive space-time coding at physical layer and truncated automatic repeat request at data link layer is considered in this paper. Three types of space-time code are analysed in the paper: V-BLAST, QOSTBC, and STBC. Furthermore, we deduce the approximate expression of packet error rate based on space-time code and propose a novel adaptive transmission scheme. Numerical results reveal that the joint design of space-time coding and truncated ARQ can achieve considerable spectral efficiency gain. By properly choosing the number of retransmissions, we can get a good tradeoff between delay and spectral efficiency.

[1]  Siavash M. Alamouti,et al.  A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications , 1998, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[2]  A. Robert Calderbank,et al.  Space-Time block codes from orthogonal designs , 1999, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[3]  Ari Hottinen,et al.  Square-matrix embeddable space-time block codes for complex signal constellations , 2002, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory.

[4]  Harry Leib,et al.  Performance of truncated type-II hybrid ARQ schemes with noisy feedback over block fading channels , 2000, IEEE Trans. Commun..

[5]  Ari Hottinen,et al.  Minimal non-orthogonality rate 1 space-time block code for 3+ Tx antennas , 2000, 2000 IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications. ISSTA 2000. Proceedings (Cat. No.00TH8536).

[6]  Reinaldo A. Valenzuela,et al.  V-BLAST: an architecture for realizing very high data rates over the rich-scattering wireless channel , 1998, 1998 URSI International Symposium on Signals, Systems, and Electronics. Conference Proceedings (Cat. No.98EX167).

[7]  Hamid Jafarkhani.  A quasi-orthogonal space-time block code , 2001, IEEE Trans. Commun..

[8]  Georgios B. Giannakis,et al.  Cross-Layer combining of adaptive Modulation and coding with truncated ARQ over wireless links , 2004, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[9]  A. Robert Calderbank,et al.  Space-time block coding for wireless communications: performance results , 1999, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[10]  F. Gagnon,et al.  Performance analysis of the V-BLAST algorithm: an analytical approach , 2002, 2002 International Zurich Seminar on Broadband Communications Access - Transmission - Networking (Cat. No.02TH8599).