Quasi Orthogonal Space Time Block Code

Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code presents an up-to-date, comprehensive and in-depth discussion of an important emerging class of space-time codes, called the Quasi-Orthogonal STBC (QO-STBC). Used in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication systems, they provide transmit diversity with higher code rates than the well-known orthogonal STBC (O-STBC), yet at lower decoding complexity than non-orthogonal STBC. This book will help readers gain a broad understanding of the fundamental principles as well as the state-of-the-art work in QO-STBC, thus enabling them to appreciate the roles of QO-STBC in future broadband wireless systems and to inspire further research. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (151 KB). Chapter 1: Introduction of MIMO Channel and Space-Time Block Code (703 KB). Contents: Introduction of MIMO Channel and Space-Time Block Code; Orthogonal and Quasi- Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code; Insights of QO-STBC; Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code with Minimum Decoding Complexity; Differential QO-STBC; Rate, Complexity and Diversity Trade-Off in QO-STBC; Other Developments and Applications of QO-STBC. Readership: Academics and graduate-level research students and developers of next-generation wireless systems.

This book covers the fundamental principles of space-time coding for wireless communications over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels, and sets out practical coding methods for achieving the performance improvements predicted by the theory. Starting with background material on wireless communications and the capacity of MIMO channels, the book then reviews design criteria for space-time codes. A detailed treatment of the theory behind space-time block codes then leads on to an in-depth discussion of space-time trellis codes. The book continues with discussion of differential space-time modulation, BLAST and some other space-time processing methods and the final chapter addresses additional topics in space-time coding. The theory and practice sections can be used independently of each other. Written by one of the inventors of space-time block coding, this book is ideal for a graduate student familiar with the basics of digital communications, and for engineers implementing the theory in real systems.

The wireless community is on the verge of the standardization of fourth generation (4G) systems. Research has generated a number of solutions for significant improvement of system performance. The development of enabling technologies such as adaptive coding and modulation, iterative (turbo) decoding algorithms and space-time coding, means that industry can now implement these solutions. Advanced Wireless Communications: 4G Technologies focuses on the system elements that provide adaptability and reconfigurability and discusses how these features can improve 4G system performance. There are several different systems comprising 4G, including adaptive WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), ATDMA (Adaptive Time Division Multiple Access), Multicarrier (OFDMA) and Ultra Wide Band (UWB) receiver elements. This book provides a comparative study of these technologies and focuses on their future co-existence. Topics covered include: Space Time Coding, including discussions on diversity gain, the encoding and transmission sequence, the combining s cheme and ML decision rule for two-branch transmit diversity scheme with one and M receivers. Ultra Wide Band Radio, UWB multiple access in Gaussian channels, the UWB channel, UWB system with M-ary modulation, M-ary PPM UWB multiple access, coded UWB schemes, multi-user detection in UWB radio, UWB with space time processing and beam forming for UWB radio. Antenna array signal processing with focus on Space-Time receivers for CDMA communications, MUSIC and ESPRIT DOA estimation, joint array combining and MLSE receivers, joint combiner and channel response estimation and complexity reduction in the wide-band beam forming Channel modeling and measurement, adaptive MAC, adaptive routing and TCP layer are also addressed. This book will supply the reader with a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between the systems performance, its complexity/reliability and cost-effectiveness. It gives an insight into the impact of existing and new technologies on the receiver structure and provides an understanding of current approaches and evolving directions for personal and indoor communication.

Pt. 1. Applications of coding theory to computational complexity. ch. 1. Linear complexity and related complexity measures / Arne Winterhof. ch. 2. Lattice and construction of high coding gain lattices from codes / Mohammd-Reza Sadeghi. ch. 3. Distributed space-time codes with low ML decoding complexity / G. Susinder Rajan and B. Sundar Rajan -- pt. 2. Methods of algebraic combinatorics in coding theory/codes construction and existence. ch. 4. Coding theory and algebraic combinatorics / Michael Huber. ch. 5. Block codes from matrix and group rings / Paul Hurley and Ted Hurley. ch. 6. LDPC and convolutional codes from matrix and group rings / Paul Hurley and Ted Hurley. ch. 7. Search for good linear codes in the class of quasi-cyclic and related codes / Nuh Aydin and Tsvetan Asamov -- pt. 3. Source coding/channel capacity/network coding. ch. 8. Applications of universal source coding to statistical analysis of time series / Boris Ryabko. ch. 9. Introduction to network coding for acyclic and cyclic networks / Ángela I. Barbero and Øyvind Ytrehus. ch. 10. Distributed joint source-channel coding on a multiple access channel / Vinod Sharma and R. Rajesh -- pt. 4. Other selected topics in information and coding theory. ch. 11. Low-density parity-check codes and the related performance analysis methods / Xudong Ma. ch. 12. Variable length codes and finite automata / Marie-Pierre Béal [und weitere]. ch. 13. Decoding and finding the minimum distance with Gröbner Bases : history and new insights / Stanislav Bulygin and Ruud Pellikaan. ch. 14. Cooperative diversity systems for wireless communication / Murat Uysal and Muhammad Mehboob Fareed. ch. 15. Public key cryptography and coding theory / Pascal Véron

The four short years since Digital Communication over Fading Channels became an instant classic have seen a virtual explosion of significant new work on the subject, both by the authors and by numerous researchers around the world. Foremost among these is a great deal of progress in the area of transmit diversity and space-time coding and the associated multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) channel. This new edition gathers these and other results, previously scattered throughout numerous publications, into a single convenient and informative volume. Like its predecessor, this Second Edition discusses in detail coherent and noncoherent communication systems as well as a large variety of fading channel models typical of communication links found in the real world. Coverage includes single- and multichannel reception and, in the case of the latter, a large variety of diversity types. The moment generating function (MGF)-based approach for performance analysis, introduced by the authors in the first edition and referred to in literally hundreds of publications, still represents the backbone of the book's presentation. Important features of this new edition include: * An all-new, comprehensive chapter on transmit diversity, space-time coding, and the MIMO channel, focusing on performance evaluation * Coverage of new and improved diversity schemes * Performance analyses of previously known schemes in new and different fading scenarios * A new chapter on the outage probability of cellular mobile radio systems * A new chapter on the capacity of fading channels * And much more Digital Communication over Fading Channels, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for graduate students, researchers investigating these systems, and practicing engineers responsible for evaluating their performance.

The new multimedia standards (for example, MPEG-21) facilitate the seamless integration of multiple modalities into interoperable multimedia frameworks, transforming the way people work and interact with multimedia data. These key technologies and multimedia solutions interact and collaborate with each other in increasingly effective ways, contributing to the multimedia revolution and having a significant impact across a wide spectrum of consumer, business, healthcare, education, and governmental domains. This book aims to provide a complete coverage of the areas outlined and to bring together the researchers from academic and industry as well as practitioners to share ideas, challenges, and solutions relating to the multifaceted aspects of this field.