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{{About-distinguish|coherent space–time block codes (STBCs)|differential space–time block codes|Differential space–time code}}

'''Space–time block coding''' is a technique used in [[wireless|wireless communications]] to transmit multiple copies of a data stream across a number of [[Antenna (radio)|antenna]]s and to exploit the various received versions of the data to improve the reliability of data transfer. The fact that the transmitted signal must traverse a potentially difficult environment with [[scattering]], [[Reflection (physics)|reflection]], [[refraction]] and so on and may then be further corrupted by [[thermal noise]] in the [[Receiver (radio)|receiver]] means that some of the received copies of the data may be closer to the original signal than others. This redundancy results in a higher chance of being able to use one or more of the received copies to correctly decode the received signal. In fact, [[Space–time code|space–time coding]] combines ''all'' the copies of the received signal in an optimal way to extract as much information from each of them as possible.