MAP-Index Coded Media-Based Modulation

Mirror activation pattern (MAP) in media-based modulation (MBM) refers to the ON/OFF status of radio-frequency mirrors, which create different near field geometries for different ON/OFF combinations. In this letter, we introduce a novel coding scheme for MBM in which indices are assigned to MAPs, such that these indices are used as labels for the elements in a Galois field. The MAP indices are then coded across time, and the block transmission is carried out. The resulting signal set has good distance distribution, which leads to good bit error performance. Structured sparse matrix sketching-based signal detection algorithms for the proposed scheme are presented.