Space-frequency-time turbo coded modulation

A new bandwidth and power efficient signaling scheme is proposed that achieves high data rates over wideband radio channels exploiting the bandwidth efficient OFDM modulation, multiple transmit and receive antennas and large frequency selectivity offered in typical low mobility indoor environments. Owing to its maximum transmit diversity gain and large coding gain, space-frequency-time turbo coded modulation strongly outperforms other space-frequency-time coding schemes proposed in literature. A simple way of combining space-frequency-time coding with OFDM delay diversity for cost effective exploitation of more than two transmit antennas is also proposed in this paper.