BibTeX:

@article{IJIRSTV1I12075,
     title={Improvement in Link Reliability via Space Time Block Coding Technique for the LTE Advanced Wireless Communication System in Rayleigh Fadding Environment},
     author={Dharmesh M. Patel, Ashishgoud Purushotham and G. Usha Rani},
     journal={International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology},
     volume={1},
     number={12},
     pages={57--61},
     year={},
     url={http://www.ijirst.org/articles/IJIRSTV1I12075.pdf},
     publisher={IJIRST (International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology)},
}

This paper presents highly robust space time block coded (STBC) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. This has been very popular in long term evolution (LTE) and LTE-A (LTE-Advanced) plans. STBC along with MIMO has tremendous potential for link reliability in physical layer. Also looking at various methods of combining signals at receiver gives motivation to the use of MIMO in LTE systems. This work discusses the combinations of multiple antennas at either transmitter and or receiver and shows that increase in number of antennas gives rise to bit error rate (BER) which is one of the important measure of link reliability. To show the conclusion, comparison has been done among the system having one transmit and multiple receive antennas and one receive and multiple transmit antennas. It is found that multiple antennas provide diversity gain and as the number of antennas increases either in transmitter or in receiver side, it provides diversity gain. This greatly improves the performance of wireless communication channel in Rayleigh faded environment.

Multiple Input Multiple Output, Space Time Block Code, Turbo Coding, Diversity