Walsh coding across multiple antennas for high data rate wireless services

The combination of Walsh coding with a layered space-time architecture is investigated. This provides a system with flexible coding rates and low complexity linear decoding. The codes allow exploitation of the diversity of the multiple antenna channel while allowing code rates up to 1, while still providing a performance improvement over an uncoded system. Simulations provide comparison with repetition coded and uncoded systems.

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