An efficient antenna shuffling scheme for a DSTTD system

A new antenna shuffling scheme for DSTTD (double space time transmit diversity) is proposed. The proposed method obtains the shuffling pattern directly from the estimated channel by maximizing minimum post-processing SNR (signal to noise ratio), while the conventional method minimizes channel correlation. Since the minimum post-processing SNR is directly related with error performance, the proposed method shows better bit error rate performance than the conventional method.

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