Suboptimal transmission of orthogonal space-time block codes over correlated distributed antennas

Abstract

This letter investigates optimal transmission of orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) over distributed antennas (DAs) in non-ergodic flat Rayleigh fading channels with transmit antenna correlations. A generalized DA topology is considered, where the DAs are grouped into some geographically dispersed ports within each of which the DAs are co-located. Assuming equal power allocation within each port, the outage probability is derived. We find that minimizing the outage probability only requires the feedback of the eigenvalues of the transmit correlation matrix at the transmitter. Since it is computationally intensive to minimize the outage probability, an antenna subset selection with suboptimal power allocation scheme is proposed, whose effectiveness has been demonstrated by numerical results. © 2007 IEEE.