Further discussion on the design of STBC-MLC scheme for different set partitioning

Abstract

This paper presents the concatenation scheme of space-time block codes (STBC) and multilevel codes/multi-stage decoding (MLC/MSD). We analyze the impact of different set partitionings, namely Ungerboeck's partitioning (UP) and block partitioning (BP), on the concatenation scheme by using product distance. Based on capacity rule, performances of the concatenation schemes with 8-ASK and 8-PSK are given for analyzing.