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Published on: February 6, 2014
Robust rateless space time block coding for mmWave massive MIMO system
Zelalem A Kelem1, Habib M Hussein1
1Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Center of Excellence, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ethiopia.
Abstract:
In the vast growing wireless communication system creating robust encoding mechanisms using space-time block codes (STBC) for mmWave massive MIMO to overcome uncertainty and ensure reliability is a critical concept to be covered. This article reviews the core concepts behind MIMO communication, Massive MIMO communication, space-time block codes, and rateless codes in the context of wireless communication systems. Building on the foundational concepts of information theory and mmWave massive MIMO, we developed space-time block codes that maintain orthogonality for real-valued symbols. Following a thorough analysis of these codes, we successfully extended them into rateless orthogonal space-time block codes (ROSTBC) for massive MIMO. This extension enables the codes to adapt their rates dynamically based on the unknown channel conditions at the transmitter. The research work was concluded by comparing static G4 encoded Tarokah work and other Orthogonal Space Time Block Codes (OSTBCs) with Rateless Space Time Block Codes (ROSTBCs). The results show that as the number of blocks used to encode the message in Rateless Space Time Block Code (ROSTBC) increases, this coding scheme can outperform static Rateless Space Time Block Codes (OSTBC) in very low SNR values by a minimum of 8.5 %. This work can enhance wireless communication by creating reliable communication over inherently unreliable systems.
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