MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

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A Differential Detection Scheme for Transmit Diversity

Dr. Vahid Tarokh
AT&T Research

Thursday, February 17, 2000
4:00 PM (reception following)
Room 35-225
LIDS Colloquium

Abstract

We present a transmission scheme for exploiting diversity given by two transmit antennas when neither the transmitter nor the receiver has access to channel state information. The new detection scheme can use equal energy constellations and encoding is simple. At the receiver, decoding is achieved with low decoding complexity. The transmission provides full spatial diversity and requires no channel state side information at the receiver. The scheme can be thought as the extension of differential detection schemes to two transmit antennas.

This is based on a joint work with H. Jafarkhani.

A short reception will follow in the Osborne Room (35-338)

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Vahid Tarokh received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1995. From August 1995 to May 1996, he was employed by the Coordinated Science Laboratory, of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as a visiting lecturer. He joined AT&T Labs-Research in June 1996 as a member of staff where he is currently employed. In this position, his scientific work has focused on the general area of communications, including wireless communications, source and channel coding, and more recently multicarrier communications.


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