Analysis of Golden Code in 4G Mobile Communication over Rayleigh Fading Channel

Abstract

In Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) system, the symbols per transmit antenna in particular time slot are taken from a coded constellation. Golden code is one of the best coding techniques to form such a kind of constellation.  In this paper, Golden code has been analyzed with 2 × 1 and 2 × 2 antenna configurations under AWGN and Rayleigh Fading channel environments. Results show that Golden code with full diversity outperforms the other antenna systems in terms of symbol error rate and diversity gain.