Space-Time for MIMO Multicasting and Full-Rate, Full-Diversity Codes with Partial CSI

Abstract

A key contribution is an Orthogonal Space-Time Block Coding (OSTBC) scheme with max-min precoding is proposed to ensure reliable multicast transmission over MIMO channels. Compared to open-loop OSTBC and max-min beamforming, this scheme achieves universally better performance in terms of the worst-case SNR. Computational complexity reduction was achieved via a diagonal precoding scheme that can be implemented efficiently with linear programming technique and which outperforms the max-min beamforming scheme when the number of users becomes moderately large. The diagonal precoding scheme also provides a good trade-off between the mean performance and the worst-case performance. Another key contribution was a hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ) scheme for wireless multicast, i.e., common information broadcast, with incremental redundancy channel coding and packet retransmission. With this scheme, one can reliably deliver the same copy of information to different users with minimal delay. In addition, the design of the feedback channel for this scheme can be greatly simplified as no effort is required to combat cross-user interference. This work has been presented at a number of IEEE conferences and in journal papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and also a book chapter emanating from the IEEE/IEE Waveform Design Workshop.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 2009
Accession Number
ADA515808

Entities

People

  • Michael D. Zoltowski

Organizations

  • Purdue University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Channel Coding
  • Coding
  • Communication Systems
  • Computational Complexity
  • Computer Programming
  • Decoding
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Information Theory
  • Mobile Communications
  • Mobile Phones
  • Multiple Access
  • Multiple Input Multiple Output
  • Signal Processing
  • Students
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Computer Networking
  • Operations Research
  • Radio communications and signal processing.

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  • Space