Grassmannian Constellation Based on Antipodal Points and Orthogonal Design and Its Simplified Detecting Algorithm

Abstract

This study presents a framework of the unitary space time modulation (USTM) constellation based on antipodal points over Grassmannian manifold. The antipodal constellation enables an intrinsic simplified ML detecting algorithm. The algebraic orthogonal USTM constellation is also an antipodal constellation which, apart from being adaptive to the antipodal simplified ML detector, also has another simplified ML detector based on its self-indexing features, and the latter is simpler because of getting rid of the matrix operation. A searching orthogonal USTM constellation based on the grid search algorithm is obtained under the presented framework and its minimum Frobenius chordal distance and simulation performance are be superior to those of the algebraic orthogonal USTM constellation.