This paper proposes a space-time block-coded orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (STBC-OFDM) scheme for frequency-selective fading channels which does not require channel knowledge either at the transmitter or at the receiver. This paper proposed a generalized maximum likelihood estimation decoding algorithm. Due to the orthogonality nature of STBC, the rule for decoding was reduced to a single step. The performance investigation of the proposed system was done over Rayleigh fading

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... l and also over the Rician fading channel. Simulation results reveal the performance of proposed STBC communication system is near optimum.