Spatial Modulation for Multiple-Antenna Wireless Systems : A Survey

Marco Di Renzo (1) , Harald Haas (2) , Peter Grant (2)

1 L2S - Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes
2 IDCOM - Institute for Digital Communications

Multiple-antenna techniques constitute a key technology for modern wireless communications, which trade-off superior error performance and higher data rates for increased system complexity and cost. Among the many transmission principles that exploit multiple-antenna at either the transmitter, the receiver, or both, Spatial Modulation (SM) is a novel and recently proposed multiple- uniqueness and randomness properties of the wireless channel for communication. This is achieved by adopting a simple but effective coding mechanism that establishes a one-to-one mapping between blocks of information bits to be transmitted and the spatial positions of the transmit-antenna in the antenna-array. In this article, we summarize the latest research achievements and outline some relevant open research issues of this recently proposed transmission technique.

Domaines: Théorie de l'information [cs.IT]; Théorie de l'information et codage [math.IT]

Marco Di Renzo, Harald Haas, Peter Grant. Spatial Modulation for Multiple-Antenna Wireless Systems : A Survey. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011, 49 (12), pp.182-191. ⟨10.1109/MCOM.2011.6094024⟩. ⟨hal-00663051⟩