Signal Space Diversity for Spatial Multiplexing

When channel state information is available at the transmitter, we can diagonalize a MIMO channel with SVD transceivers. However, outage of the weaker eigenchannels limits the performance of such a transceiver. In the current work, we propose and analytically characterize co-ordinate interleaving of multi-dimensional symbols over sets of eigenchannels. We show that in our method, the diversity multiplexing trade-off (DMT) is determined by the strongest eigenchannel in each set. We also calculate the optimal (DMT) for different possible sets and constellation dimensions with rate allocation among the sets.