Amplify-and-forward cooperative diversity with space-time coded UWB systems

In this paper, we examine the impact of spatial diversity on ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. This diversity is exploited by deploying two antennas at the UWB terminals. For single-antenna systems, spatial diversity is exploited in a distributed manner where a neighboring node can help the source in de...

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Main Author: Abou-Rjeily, Chadi (author)
Other Authors: Daniele, Norbert (author), Belfiore, Jean-Claude (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/5748
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICU.2006.281588
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4059483/
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Summary:In this paper, we examine the impact of spatial diversity on ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. This diversity is exploited by deploying two antennas at the UWB terminals. For single-antenna systems, spatial diversity is exploited in a distributed manner where a neighboring node can help the source in delivering its message to a destination. In particular, two space-time (ST) coding schemes are proposed. The first one is optimal among all totally-real codes having a constant transmitted energy per antenna. Unlike the classical approach of constructing ST codes over infinite fields, the second construction takes the structure of 2-dimensional constellations into consideration in order to propose an appropriate modulation-specific code. These schemes are associated with multi-antenna arrays and with virtual arrays based on the amplify-and-forward (AF) strategy