Description
In a space-time block code, \(n\) spatially separated channels transmit symbols in \(T\) time slots. These symbols can be arranged in a \(T\times n\) matrix where the columns correspond to the channels, and the rows correspond to the time slots. The codewords \(\{X\}\) are \(T\times n\) matrices such that the codeword difference matrices have rank \(n\), and \(\min_{X\neq 0}\det(XX^*)\) is maximized.
Protection
Provides protection against errors due to thermal noise and destructive interference arising from traversing an environment with scattering, reflection, and/or refraction.
Realizations
Parent
- Spacetime code (STC) — Spacetime codes also use spatial and temporal diversity, but do not necessarily use blocks as codewords.
Children
- Orthogonal Spacetime Block Code (OSTBC) — The same construction without the constraint that the codeword matrices are orthogonal.
- Multi-channel group-orbit code
References
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Page edit log
- Richard Barney (2022-04-05) — most recent
Cite as:
“Spacetime block code (STBC)”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2022. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/spacetime_block