%0 Journal Article
%T BER Analysis of STBC Codes for MIMO Rayleigh Flat Fading Channels
%A L. A. Peri£¿oar£¿
%J Telfor Journal
%D 2012
%I Telecommunications Society, Academic Mind
%X The paper presents the analysis of Space-Time Block Codes (STBC) used in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems to assure transmit diversity. The receive diversity is resolved with a Maximum Ratio Combining technique. For a fixed number of transmit antennas, the performances of different STBC codes are analyzed in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER) and diversity gain for a quasi-static Rayleigh flat fading channel. Finally, it is shown that by increasing the number of transmit/receive antennas, the system performances increase.
%K Bit error rate
%K maximum ratio combiner
%K receive diversity
%K space-time block codes
%K transmit diversity
%U http://journal.telfor.rs/Published/Vol4No2/Vol4No2_A1.pdf