System Performance of Concatenated STBC and Block Turbo Codes in Dispersive Fading Channels

A new scheme of concatenating the block turbo code (BTC) with the space-time block code (STBC) for an OFDM system in dispersive fading channels is investigated in this paper. The good error correcting capability of BTC and the large diversity gain characteristics of STBC can be achieved simultaneous...

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Main Authors: Kam Tai Chan, Yinggang Du
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2005-05-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/ASP.2005.844