Antenna selection for space time coding over frequency-selective fading channels


GÜÇLÜOĞLU T., Duman T., Ghrayeb A.

IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, Canada, 17 - 21 May 2004, pp.709-712 identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • City: Montreal
  • Country: Canada
  • Page Numbers: pp.709-712
  • Yıldız Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with antenna selection at the receiver side for space-time coded systems over frequency-selective fading channels. We reveal that introducing antenna selection based on the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) observed can still achieve the full diversity available, if the underlying space-time code (STC) is full-rank (i.e., if it achieves full diversity without antenna selection over the frequency-selective fading channel). We also argue that if the code is not full-rank, antenna selection results in a loss in the diversity of the system.