Contents -- Foreword -- 1 . Introduction of MIMO Channel and Space-Time Block Code -- 1.1 MIMO Channel for Wireless Communications -- 1.2 Transmit Diversity with Space-Time Block Code -- 1.3 Notations and Abbreviations -- 1.4 Signal Model of MIMO Channel and STBC -- 1.4.1 Signal model of MIMO channel -- 1.4.2 Signal model of STBC -- 1.5 Design Criteria and Performance Measure of STBC -- 2 . Orthogonal and Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code -- 2.1 Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code -- 2.1.1 Benefits of 0-STBC -- 2.1.2 Background of amicable orthogonal design -- 2.1.3 Construction of 0-STBC and its rate limitation -- 2.2 Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code -- 2.2.1 Approaching capacity with low decoding complexity -- 2.2.2 Performance optimization of QO-STBC -- 2.2.2.1 Full-diversity QO-STBC with constellation rotation -- 2.2.2.2 Full-diversity QO-STBC without constellation rotation -- 2.2.3 Remark -- 3 . Insights of QO-STBC -- 3.1 Algebraic Structure of QO-STBC -- 3.1.1 Decoding complexity of a QO-STBC -- 3.1.2 Maximal symbol-wise diversity of a QO-STBC -- 3.2 Generalized Decoding Framework of QO-STBC -- 3.3 Impact of Constellation Rotation on the Decoding Complexity of QO-STBC -- 3.3.1 Simplified QO-STBC model with real symbols only -- 3.3.2 Decoding complexity of QO-STBC with CR -- 3.4 Group-Constrained Linear Transformation -- 3.4.1 Definition of GCLT -- 3.4.2 Optimization of GCLT parameters -- 3.4.2.1 GCLT of J4 -- 3.4.2.2 GCLT of J8 -- 3.4.2.3 GCLTof TBH8 -- 3.4.3 Performance comparison -- 3.4.3.1 ML decoding complexity -- 3.4.3.2 Decoding performance -- 3.5 Chapter Summary -- 4 . Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code with Minimum Decoding Complexity -- 4.1 Algebraic Structure of MDC-QOSTBC -- 4.2 Square MDC-QOSTBC Design -- 4.2.1 Definition of preferred AOD pair.

4.2.2 Relationship between MDC-QOSTBC and AOD through preferred AOD pair -- 4.2.3 Lower bound on the code rate for square design -- 4.2.4 Construction of preferred AOD pair -- 4.2.4.1 Quaternion -- 4.2.4.2 Systematic construction of preferred AOD pair -- 4.2.4.3 Examples of MDC-QOSTBC constructed)om preferred AOD pair -- 4.3 Construction of MDC-QOSTBC from 0-STBC -- 4.3.1 Construction method -- 4.3.2 Performance optimization -- 4.3.2.1 Diversity product of MDC-QOSTBC -- 4.3.2.2 Optimum CR angle for square- and rectangular-QAM -- 4.3.2.3 Optimum CR angle for PSK -- 4.3.3 Non-square MDC-QOSTBC design -- 4.3.3.1 MDC-QOSTBC for odd number of transmit antennas -- 4.3.3.2 Maximum code rate of square MDC-QOSTBC -- 4.3.3.3 Maximum code rate of non-square MDC-QOSTBC -- 4.4 Performance Results -- 4.5 Chapter Summary -- 5 . Differential QO-STBC -- 5.1 DSTM Codeword Model and Design Criteria -- 5.2 Unitary DSTM Based on QO-STBC -- 5.2.1 Literature review -- 5.2.2 Signal model of unitary DSTM scheme -- 5.2.3 Double-symbol-decodable unitary DSTM -- 5.2.3.1 STBC Unitary DSTM Based on Double-Symbol-Decodable QO- -- 5.2.3.2 Design of constellation set -- 5.2.4 Performance comparison -- 5.2.5 Section summary -- 5.3 Quasi-Unitary DSTM Based on MDC-QOSTBC -- 5.3.1 Literature review -- 5.3.2 Signal model of quasi-unitary DSTM scheme -- 5.3.3 Single-symbol-decodable quasi-unitary DSTM -- 5.3.3.1 Quasi-unitary DSTM based on single-symbol-decodable MDC-QOSTBC -- 5.3.3.2 Constellation design -- 5.3.3.3 Performance comparison -- 5.3.3.4 Section summary -- 5.4 Chapter Summary -- 6 . Rate. Complexity and Diversity Trade-off in QO-STBC -- 6.1 QO-STBC with Rate 5 1 -- 6.1.1 Introduction -- 6.1.2 Full-rate 4Gp-QOSTBC -- 6.1.2.1 Construction of 4Gp-QOSTBC -- 6.1.2.2 Code rate of 4Gp-QOSTBC -- 6. I .2.3 Decoding performance -- 6.1.3 Rate-complexity-diversity tradeoff.

6.1.4 Section summary -- 6.2 QO-STBC with Rate > 1 -- 6.2.1 Introduction -- 6.2.2 Code search methodology -- 6.2.3 Graph modelling and modified depth first search for implementing step (b) -- 6.2.4 Code search results -- 6.2.5 Section summary -- 6.3 Chapter Summary -- 7 . Other Developments and Applications of QO-STBC -- 7.1 Other Developments of QO-STBC -- 7.1.1 Closed-loop QO-STBC -- 7.1.2 Concatenation of QO-STBC with error correction code -- 7.1.3 Super space-time trellis code based on QO-STBC -- 7.1.4 QO-STBC in frequency selective fading channel -- 7.2 QO-STBC in Communication Standards -- 8 . Conclusions -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.