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Exact Error and Outage Probability Formulas for Alamouti Space Time Code 2 $\times$ J

  • Kong, Hyung-Yun (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Khuong, Ho-Van (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan) ;
  • Nam, Doo-Hee (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
  • Published : 2007.06.30
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Abstract

Alamouti space-time code (STC) is a part of the UMTS-WCDMA standard. However, up to the best of our knowledge no exact closed-form outage and bit error probability (BEP) formulas for this famous code exists. Evaluating its performance through simulations is time-consuming and therefore, there should be analytical performance graphs to serve as a reference which are derived in this paper for coherently MPSK-modulated data. Additionally, analytical results take into account different channel fading levels from transmit antennas to receive ones.

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