Design and Performance of Space-Time Precoder With Hybrid ARQ Transmission

Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) technology can efficiently increase the system capacity in rich scattering environments without increasing the bandwidth or transmission power. The precoder for MIMO transmission is a processing technique that exploits the channel state information (CSI) by operating on the signal before transmission to effectively improve link performance. A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) scheme can be incorporated with the linear precoder to ensure highly reliable communication. To fully utilize the Type-I HARQ diversity gain, particularly in slow-fading channels, we propose the optimal design principle of linear precoders whose column vectors are correspondingly orthogonal to each other. In addition, the practical solution based on codebook is given in this paper. Finally, simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed precoders in reducing the detection of bit error rate (BER) and in improving normalized throughput.