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Performance Analysis of Space-Time Block Coded Cooperative Wireless Transmission in Rayleigh Fading Channels  

Kong Hyung-Yun (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Khuong Ho-Van (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Journal of Communications and Networks / v.8, no.3, 2006 , pp. 306-312 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper studies theoretically the bit error rate (BER) performance of cooperative transmission using space-time block code (STBC) in a fully distributed manner. Specifically, we first propose a STBC-based cooperative signaling structure to make the cooperation of three single-antenna terminals possible. Then, we derive the closed-form BER expressions for both cooperation and noncooperation schemes under flat Rayleigh fading channel plus additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). The validity of these expressions is verified by Monte-Carlo simulations. A variety of numerical and simulation results reveal that the cooperative transmission achieves higher diversity gain and better performance than the direct transmission for the same total transmit power.
Keywords
Additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN); cooperative transmission; Rayleigh fading; space-time block code (STBC);
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