Algebraic Differential Cayley Space-Time Codes




Cayley Space-Time Codes have been introduced by Hassibi and Hochwald for coding over the noncoherent MIMO channel using differential modulation. Differential modulation is a technique for coding when the channel is unknown, and it requires the design of unitary matrices that are fully diverse. Cayley codes are based on the Cayley transform, which maps a hermitian matrix on a unitary matrix. In the original work, the full diversity criterion was replaced by a mutual information optimization. Algebraic Cayley codes are Cayley codes built over division algebras. They are thus fully diverse:

Joint work with Prof.
B. Hassibi





Last update: August 26 2006