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A Simple Orthogonal Space-Time-Polarization Block Code
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)
  • B. J. Wysocki, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Tadeusz Wysocki, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • J. Seberry, University of Wollongong
  • S. Spence Adams, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  • H. Sharif, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Date of this Version
1-1-2007
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Published in Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC-2007 Fall. 2007 IEEE 66th Sept. 30 2007-Oct. 3 2007 Pages 754-757; Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/VETECF.2007.167 ©2007 IEEE. Used by permission.
Abstract

This letter proposes a simple but highly efficient technique to jointly utilize space, time, and polarization diversities. The technique is based on extending orthogonal space-time block codes into the quaternion domain and utilizing a description of the dual-polarized signal by means of quaternions, which are a generalization of complex numbers. In the given example, the achievable performance gain for two transmit and one receive antennas is approximately 6 dB at a bit error rate of 10-4 when compared with the Alamouti code.

Citation Information
B. J. Wysocki, Tadeusz Wysocki, J. Seberry, S. Spence Adams, et al.. "A Simple Orthogonal Space-Time-Polarization Block Code" (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jseberry/115/