On quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes for dual-polarized MIMO channels
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications(2011)
Abstract
As a space- and cost-efficient antenna configuration, dual-polarized antennas are widely deployed in real field MIMO wireless communication systems. The Quasi-Orthogonal Space- Time Code (QOSTBC), due to its advantages in the transmission rate and the decoding complexity, is an important transmit diversity scheme for more than 2 transmit antennas. In this paper, we investigate the performance of QOSTBC for dual-polarized MIMO channels. We show that when QOSTBC is used with dual-polarized antennas, we need to connect the power amplifier (PA) outputs to the differently polarized antennas carefully, in order to avoid more than ldB performance loss at high cross- polar discrimination (XPD). Also, we show that, if the QOSTBC with constellation rotations, which achieves full diversity in uni- polarized MIMO channels, is used, the performance loss due to the bad PA to antenna connections is mitigated. However, when the XPD is high, the QOSTBC without full diversity, if connected properly, can achieve better performance than the QOSTBC with full diversity but connected badly, which shows the importance of proper connection at high XPD. So, to guarantee robust performance of QOSTBC at any XPD, besides designing codes to have full diversity and good diversity product, connecting properly between the PA outputs to the antennas is also important.
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cross-polar discrimination,diversity reception,wireless communications,transmit antennas,transmitting antennas,space-time coding,space-efficient antenna configuration,orthogonal codes,power amplifiers,real-field mimo wireless communication systems,constellation rotations,antenna arrays,quasi-orthogonal space-time block code,qostbc,xpd,pa-to-antenna connections,wireless channels,mimo communication,mimo,space-time block codes,decoding complexity,transmit diversity scheme,unipolarized mimo channels,cost-efficient antenna configuration,quasiorthogonal space-time block codes,dual-polarized mimo channels,transmission rate,dual-polarized antennas,dual-polarized channel,transmit diversity,cost efficiency,wireless communication,space time coding,space time code,mathematical model,cross polarization,power amplifier
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