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IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, VOL. 5, NO. 7, JULY 2001 313 Improved Design Criteria and New Trellis Codes for Space–Time Coded Modulation in Slow Flat Fading Channels Meixia Tao and Roger S. Cheng, Member, IEEE Abstract— The design criteria for space–time code under slow In this letter, we explore this practical issue and derive more flat Rayleigh fading environments are well known to be the rank precise criteria for designing space–time codes. We also find criterion and the determinant criterion. However, the derivation new space–time codes using the new design criteria and show of these two criteria is based on the assumption that the signal-to- noise ratio (SNR) is sufficiently high. Hence these criteria are loose that they have superior performance over the existing codes. when the SNR does not satisfy this assumption. In this letter, we consider this practical issue and derive tighter design criteria for II. SYSTEM MODEL AND DESIGN CRITERIA moderate and low SNRs. Some new space–time trellis codes are found based on the new criteria through computer search. Simula- We consider a MIMO wireless system equipped with tion results show that these codes outperform existing codes under transmit antennas and receive antennas. It is assumed that their designed SNR conditions. the channel is quasi-static flat Rayleigh fading and the channel Index Terms—Diversity, fading channels, MIMO systems, coefficients between any pair of antennas are independent and space–time codes. perfectly known to the r