The conventional orthogonal space-time block code (OSTBC) with limited feedback has fixed feedback bits for the specific transmit antennas. A new partial feedback based OSTBC which provides flexible feedback bits is proposed in this paper. The proposed scheme inherits the properties of having a simple decoder and the full diversity of OSTBC, moreover, preserves full data rate. Simulation result...

The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system with space-frequency block coding (SFBC) is an attractive technique due to its robustness for time selective fading channels. SFBC MIMO-OFDM systems have a high computational complexity since the number of inverse fast Fourier transforms (IFFTs) required scales in direct proportion to the number o...

Orthogonal space-time block coding is a transmit diversity method that has the potential to enhance the forward capacity. For a communication system with complex alphabet, full diversity and full code rate space-time codes are available only for two antennas, and for more than two antennas full diversity is achieved only when the code rate is lower than one. A quasi-orthogonal code could provid...

This paper presents the design and evaluation of a channel estimation scheme that is efficient by means of both the mean square error (MSE) of channel estimation/tracking and its incorporation in a real MIMO system. The evaluation has been performed over the spatial channel model developed for MIMO simulations according to 802.16e case of 3GPP.25.996, taking also into account all IF and RF stag...

In the present work, we have combined Orthogonal Space-Frequency Block Coding (OSFBC) and Spatial Multiplexing (SM) in one transmission scheme for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems. In the combined transmission scheme, both spatial diversity and multiplexing benefits are possible to achieve. Simple Alamouti coding as the S-F coding across spatial multiplexing branches an...