Adaptive Opportunistic Spatial Modulation for Boosting Transmit Diversity

In this paper, we propose an adaptive opportunistic spatial modulation scheme (AOSM), in which, our unique opportunistic group-antenna-selection scheme is amalgamated with a simple phase alignment (PA) transmit pre-scaling to boost the transmit-diversity of SM. To characterize and analytically evaluate the AOSM, a comprehensive error performance analysis is presented with single antenna reception. We theoretically derive a tight upper-bound for the symbol error probability (SEP) in closed-form based on an improved union-bound. The exact explicit asymptotic formula of the SEP at high SNR is provided as well. These results demonstrate that the transmit-diversity of proposed AOSM-(multiple-input single-output) MISO scheme is not only successfully achieved, but also elevated to be equal to the number of antennas in each antenna group. Moreover, it also reveals an important performance trend: at high SNR, with a fixed number of transmit antennas and a given data-rate, the SEP performance of the AOSM-MISO scheme can be successively enhanced by utilizing less antennas groups and bigger size of the signal constellation, because of the increase in transmit-diversity. Furthermore, the PA-aided SM-MISO is a special case of our AOSM-MISO. We are the first to provide the exact transmit-diversity gain for this conventional system and show that the PA pre-scaling scheme only can not improve the transmit-diversity of SM. This result sharpens the empirical diversity approximation results proposed in the existing literature. Simulation results well validate the analytical derivations, and indicate that our AOSM system can effectively improve system performance with high transmit-diversity at low-complexity.

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This paper proposes an adaptive opportunistic spatial modulation scheme (AOSM) that combines a unique opportunistic group-antenna-selection scheme with phase alignment transmit pre-scaling to enhance the transmit-diversity of SM. The paper presents a comprehensive error performance analysis and derives tight upper-bounds for symbol error probability in closed-form. The results show that the proposed AOSM-MISO scheme achieves the desired transmit-diversity and the performance can be further improved by utilizing fewer antennas groups and a larger signal constellation size. Additionally, the paper shows that the PA pre-scaling scheme does not improve the transmit-diversity of SM. Simulation results validate the analytical derivations and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed AOSM system.