A New Robust Decoding Technique of Four Transmitters MIMO STBC System based on FastICA Algorithm

Abstract

A new robust decoding technique which designed of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Space–Time Block Code (MIMO-STBC) using Fast Independent Component Analysis (Fast-ICA) based on proposed mixing model has been performed in this paper. This decoding technique is characterized by i) complexity is very low, ii) the speed is high and iii) BER performance is excellent. It can be achieved with any MIMO STBC system with a fewer pilot symbols number. Also, it is reduced decoding time into 1/8 by innovating a simple strategy referred by one source extraction method. Also, this paper includes suitable initializing for the de-mixing vector to solve the ambiguities problem of sign and source of blind source separation (BSS). To test the proposed technique, four transmitters (4Tx) STBC MIMO system was implemented using MATLAB2018. It also found that excellent BER performance associated with a high number of symbols per frame (about 8012 symbols). The simulation results show that the new decoder works for any number of receiver antenna (Nr = 2, 4 and 5). As compare with classical decoding algorithm, it is found that the new decoder provides coding gain (at BER =10-6 ) equal to 1 dB,1.45 dB and 1.76 dB when Nr = 2,4 and 8 respectively, using only 2~3 iterations only.