KALMAN FILTERING FOR SPACE-TIME CODED TRANSMISSIONS OVER FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE RAYLEIGH FADING CHANNELS

Abstract

The problem of multichannel estimation for space-time coded transmissions over frequency-selective Rayleigh fading channels is addressed. Under  fast fading conditions, receivers employing Kalman filtering and moderate complexity equalization schemes are proposed for both space-time block codes (STBCs) and space-time trellis  codes (STTCs). Simulation results of the proposed receivers demonstrate good performance.

Keywords

• Equalizers, Kalman filters, Rayleigh fading channels, space-time codes

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7. Ahmet Korhan Tanç was born in İzmir, Turkey, in 1978. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc.
8. (honors) degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from the Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey, in 2001 and 2004 respectively. He is currently research assistant of telecommunications at the Dokuz Eylül University. His research interests include channel coding, equalization and adaptive signal processing.

9. Reyat Yılmaz was born in Antakya, Turkey, on October 7, 1963. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from the Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir,
10. Turkey, in 1986 and 1988 respectively. During the M.Sc. education he worked at the same