Space-time trellis codes for 4-PSK with three and four transmit antennas in quasi-static flat fading channels

Z. Chen, B.S. Vucetic, J. Yuan, Ka Leong Lo
2002 IEEE Communications Letters  
It has been established that the appropriate design parameters for space-time trellis code (STTC) in quasi-static flat Rayleigh fading channels are the rank and determinant criteria or the Euclidean distance criterion, depending on the value of the overall diversity gain. In this letter, we propose two groups of new STTCs with more than two transmit antennas based on these two design criteria, respectively. These new STTCs are shown to achieve large performance improvements over the ones with two transmit antennas.
doi:10.1109/4234.984696 fatcat:3budxktsbvdmnbjm2bzsggfnmu