Method and system for decoding of the space-time encoding using the MIMO-DECODER

摘要

Space time coding (STC) may be applied at the transmitter adding redundant information in both space and time dimensions. At the receiver, the received STC signal may be decoded using a spatial multiplexing MIMO decoding, for example, based on either Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) or maximum-likelihood (ML) algorithms. A selective STC decoder may incorporate both the conventional maximum ratio combining (MRC) decoding scheme and a MIMO decoding scheme. One of the STC decoding schemes may be selected, for example, based on estimated channel conditions in order to achieve a trade-off between error rate performance and computational complexity. Components used for a non-selected scheme may be powered down.