Information Outage Probability and Diversity Order of Alamouti Transmit Diversity in Time-Selective Fading Channels

Abstract

We analyze the effect of time-selective fading on the information outage probability and diversity order of Alamouti transmit diversity with joint maximum likelihood, symbolwise linear maximum likelihood, zero forcing, and decision feedback detectors. In contrast to the existing bit error rate (BER) and bit error outage (BEO) analyses, we evaluate the information outage probabilities and corresponding asymptotic diversity orders for each detector. From the theoretical and simulation results, we demonstrate that, when the channel is time selective, the asymptotic diversity orders for the four detectors approach two, zero, one, and one, respectively.