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==Introduction==

MostMuch work on wireless communications had focused on having an antenna array at only one end of the wireless link — usually at the receiver.<ref>E. Larsson and P. Stoica,''Space-Time Block Coding For Wireless Communications''. Cambridge University Press, UK, 2003 (Chinese Edition, 2006).</ref> Seminal papers by Gerard J. Foschini and Michael J. Gans,<ref>{{cite journal|author=Gerard J. Foschini and Michael. J. Gans|title=On limits of wireless communications in a fading environment when using multiple antennas|journal=Wireless Personal Communications|pages=311–335|volume=6|issue=3|date=January 1998|doi=10.1023/A:1008889222784}}</ref> Foschini<ref>{{cite journal|author=Gerard J. Foschini|title=Layered space-time architecture for wireless communications in a fading environment when using multi-element antennas|journal=Bell Labs Technical Journal |pages=41–59|volume=1|date=Autumn 1996|doi=10.1002/bltj.2015|issue=2}}</ref> and Emre Telatar<ref>{{cite journal|author=I. Emre Telatar|title=Capacity of multi-antenna gaussian channels|journal=European Transactions on Telecommunications,|date=November 1999|pages=585–595|volume=10|doi=10.1002/ett.4460100604|issue=6}}</ref> enlarged the scope of wireless communication possibilities by showing that for the highly scattering environment substantial capacity gains are enabled when antenna arrays are used at both ends of a link.

An alternative approach to utilizing multiple antennas relies on having multiple transmit antennas and only optionally multiple receive antennas. Proposed by [[Vahid Tarokh]], [[Nambi Seshadri]] and [[Robert Calderbank]], these space–time codes<ref name="sttc">{{cite journal|author=Vahid Tarokh, Nambi Seshadri, and A. R. Calderbank|title=Space–time codes for high data rate wireless communication: Performance analysis and code construction|journal=IEEE Transactions on Information Theory|pages=744–765|volume=44|issue=2|date=March 1998|doi=10.1109/18.661517}}</ref> (STCs) achieve significant [[bit error rate|error rate]] improvements over single-antenna systems. Their original scheme was based on [[convolutional code|trellis codes]] but the simpler [[block code]]s were utilised by [[Siavash Alamouti]],<ref name="alamouti">{{cite journal|author=S.M. Alamouti|title=A simple transmit diversity technique for wireless communications|journal=IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications|pages=1451–1458|volume=16|issue=8|date=October 1998|doi=10.1109/49.730453}}</ref> and later [[Vahid Tarokh]], [[Hamid Jafarkhani]] and [[Robert Calderbank]]<ref name="stbc">{{cite journal|author=Vahid Tarokh, Hamid Jafarkhani, and A. R. Calderbank|title=Space–time block codes from orthogonal designs|journal=[[IEEE Transactions on Information Theory]]|pages=744–765|volume=45|issue=5|date=July 1999|url=http://www.mast.queensu.ca/~math800/W03/papers/TrkhJafarkCldb_IT99.pdf|format=PDF|doi=10.1109/18.771146}}</ref> to develop space–time block-codes (STBCs). STC involves the transmission of multiple redundant copies of data to compensate for [[fading]] and [[thermal noise]] in the hope that some of them may arrive at the receiver in a better state than others. In the case of STBC in particular, the data stream to be transmitted is encoded in [[block code|blocks]], which are distributed among spaced antennas and across time. While it is necessary to have multiple transmit antennas, it is not necessary to have multiple receive antennas, although to do so improves performance. This process of receiving diverse copies of the data is known as [[diversity reception]] and is what was largely studied until Foschini's 1998 paper.