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2001 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, March 21–23, 2001 Noncoherent Multiuser Space-Time Communications: Optimum Receivers and Signal Design Matthias Brehler and Mahesh K. Varanasi University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 Abstract — The jointly optimum noncoherent receiver sian vectors [10]. In contrast to the coherent case, in which is obtained for multiuser communications in a frequency we undertook the analysis without placing any restrictions on non-selective Rayleigh fading channel with N transmit the dimensionality on the signal space, we will assume in this T antennas per user and N receive antennas. Based on a paper that the number of dimensions D is greater than K N . R T general analysis of quadratic receivers in zero-mean com- However, the number of minimum dimensions is independent plex Gaussian vectors, we derive asymptotically (for high of M , the size of each user’s constellation. In particular, it SNR) tight expressions for the pair-wise error probabilities can be less than 2K , thereby relaxing the assumption made for some cases of interest. This analysis yields the impor- in [11] for analyzing the optimum multiuser receiver for bi- tant result that the number of dimensions needed for each nary nonorthogonal modulation for a single transmit and re- of the K users to achieve full diversity order N = N N is ceive antenna in frequency-flat Rayleigh fading channels ([12]