Performance of Alamouti scheme with convolution for MIMO system

Abstract

In this paper, we combine the benefits of the diversity transmission and forward error correction coding that provides considerable bit error rate performance gain. Alamouti Space Time Block code for 2 transmit antennas with 1 receive antenna and 2 transmit antennas with 2 receive antennas are explored by using BPSK and 16-QAM modulation schemes with Convolution coding. This paper investigates the Bit Error Rate performance comparison between MIMO and Alamouti using 2 transmit antennas and 2 receive antennas over Rayleigh fading channel by using Zero Forcing (ZF) and Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) receivers.