Joint complex diversity coding and channel coding over space, time and frequency

Abstract

This paper provides a general diversity analysis for joint CDC and channel coding based space-time-frequency codes (STFCs) is provided.The mapping designs from channel coding to CDC are crucial for efficient exploitation of the diversity potential. This paper provides and proves a sufficient condition of full diversity construction with joint 3-D CDC and channel coding, bit-interleaved coded complex diversity coding (BICCDC) and symbol-interleaved coded complex diversity coding (SICCDC). Both non-iterative and iterative detection of joint channel code and CDC transmission are investigated. The proposed minimum mean square error based iterative soft decoding achieves the performance of the soft sphere decoding with reduced complexity.