Performance Analysis of LDPC-Coded Space-Time Modulation over MIMO Fading Channels

A closed-form upper bound on the error performance is proposed for LDPC-coded space-time modulation over MIMO block/slow fading channels based on the analysis framework developed for the fast fading case. This follows from the observation that the pairwise error probability (PEP) in all these fading cases is determined by a certain metric of codewords, with respect to which we can enumerate all distinct PEPs and thus concisely formulate the union bound. Simulation results indicate that the bound is useful to benchmark the performance of iterative decoding and detection algorithms