Abstract:In an effort to utilize the advantage of using multiple antennas, transmit antenna selection for linear dispersion codes (LDC-TAS) is proposed in this paper. Three criteria are presented: maximum channel gain, maximum capacity and max-min post-SNR, for selecting the optimal transmit antennas when linear, coherent receiver is used over a slowly varying channel. Simulation results suggest that the max-min post-SNR criterion outperforms the other selection methods in a variety of modulation modes, such as QPSK, 8PSK and 16QAM. Compared with BLAST-TAS, under the same spectral efficiency, the proposed scheme shows significant diversity advantage. In low SNR environment, LDC-TAS is still better than STBC-TAS.