Distributed space-time block coding with incremental relay: performance improvement under imperfect synchronisation

Zheng, F.C., Burr, A.G. and Olafsson, S. (2007) Distributed space-time block coding with incremental relay: performance improvement under imperfect synchronisation. In: 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, Hungary. doi: 10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299061

Abstract/Summary

This paper addresses the impact of imperfect synchronisation on D-STBC when combined with incremental relay. To suppress such an impact, a novel detection scheme is proposed, which retains the two key features of the STBC principle: simplicity (i.e. linear computational complexity), and optimality (i.e. maximum likelihood). These two features make the new detector very suitable for low power wireless networks (e.g. sensor networks).