Adaptive cochannel interference cancellation in space-time coded communication systems

Abstract

Space-time coding is a powerful scheme that combines channel coding, modulation, and multiple transmit antennas to achieve higher data rates and combat fading in wireless systems. In this letter, we propose a multiple-input multiple-output minimum mean-square error spatial-filtering-based adaptive antenna arrays method to suppress cochannel interference (CCI) in space-time coded systems. It is shown that the proposed method can effectively suppress CCI while preserving the space-time structure, thereby significantly improving the system's interference suppression ability without significant bit error rate performance degradation.