ORTHOGONALLY-DISTRIBUTED SPACE-TIME BLOCK CODES FOR RELAY CHANNELS

The direct application of orthogonal space-time block coding (OSTBC) for multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) systems to distributed cooperative relay networks makes the equivalent channel matrix for maximum likelihood (ML) detection lose its orthogonality. Hence, this paper proposes a new design that makes the channel matrix be orthogonally distributed (OD) for a suboptimal symbol-by-symbol detector (SBSD). Using ODSTBC, an asymptotic …