Invariant Incoherent MIMO Reception Over Doubly Selective Channels

Abstract

Nowadays, there is a need for wireless communications to operate over a variety of scenarios, including high mobility multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) applications, that bring along a challenging problem. In channels where Doppler spread and delay spread are high, complexity of coherent detectors and pilot overhead are both raised. This work proposes a non-coherent reception technique, easily scalable to any number of antennas for the MIMO case, using simple coding and decoding structures which take advantage of channel diversity addition in three domains: time, frequency and space, by using virtual trajectories along with space time block-coding. Coarse analytics on the system performance in terms of the bit error rate are computed using Chernoff Boundaries as a function of the channel diversity and the order of the differential modulation, validating the efficiency of the proposed receiver.

Keywords

• Differential modulation
• doubly selective channels
• invariance
• MIMO
• non-coherent receivers
• space-time coding