Turbo- TCM and Transmit Antenna Diversity

We consider turbo-trellis-coded transmiuioll over fading MIMO chllMels with transmit diversity usillg space-time bloc cades. We consider the co1lCat_tioll ofturbo-TCM with a space-time block code and show that. in addition to the transmit diversity. subsUmtial benefits C01I be obtailled by turbo iteratioll. 111 additioll 011 improved CSI PSAM (Pilot Symbol-A.ssisted Modulation Technique) scheme I, proposed ta obtain all iterative cha1l1lel state estimate procedure.