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High Rate Space-Time Codes for Millimeter-Wave Systems with Reconfigurable Antennas
2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (2015)
  • Vida Vakilian, University of California, Riverside
  • Hani Mehrpouyan, California State University
  • Yingbo Hua, University of California, Riverside
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a high-rate space-time block code (STBC) for millimeter-wave wireless communication systems that are equipped with reconfigurable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas. We assume that each reconfigurable antenna element has the capability of forming its beam and can independently change the characteristics of its radiation pattern1. We exploit this feature of the antenna elements to construct the proposed space-time block code where each coded symbol is sent over independent beams. As a result, the received coded symbols at different receive antennas will have different power levels, a desired property that can be used in data detection. We show that the proposed code achieves a coding rate of two and requires a low-complexity maximum likelihood (ML) detector. We carry out computer simulations that demonstrate the performance of the proposed code and shows its superiority in compared to previous rate-2 STBC counterparts. We also comment on the generalization of the proposed STBC for higher MIMO dimensions.
Keywords
  • multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO),
  • reconfigurable antennas,
  • space-time block coding
Publication Date
2015
Publisher Statement
© 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. doi: 10.1109/WCNC.2015.7127536
Citation Information
Vida Vakilian, Hani Mehrpouyan and Yingbo Hua. "High Rate Space-Time Codes for Millimeter-Wave Systems with Reconfigurable Antennas" 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hani_mehrpouyan/3/