Yu Guan , Lexi Xu , Yuyang Peng , Enjian Bai , Xue Qin Jiang , Han Hai
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Abstract
Recently, signed quadrature spatial modulation (SQSM) has been proposed to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) for spatial modulation systems. SQSM extends the real and imaginary dimensions along with their inverse counterparts to transmit more bits. However, the number of transmit antennas of SQSM is limited to a power of 2. In this paper, a novel transmit antenna grouping scheme for SQSM (AG-SQSM) and an adaptive version for AG-SQSM (AAG-SQSM) are proposed. The AG-SQSM scheme makes full use of space resources, breaking through the limitation of SQSM. The SE of AG-SQSM is higher than that of traditional modulations when the number of transmit antennas increases linearly. Moreover, AAG-SQSM improves the bit error rate (BER) of the system by adopting an adaptive algorithm. The BER upper bounds of AG-SQSM and AAG-SQSM over Rayleigh fading channels are analyzed. Simulation results reveal that AG-SQSM and AAG-SQSM both have better BER performance than conventional SQSM when using the maximum likelihood (ML) detection algorithm.
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