In [515] the encoding and decoding processes as well as the various design trade-offs of space-time block codes [7,2 18,5 were reviewed. More explicitly, various previously pro161 posed space-time block codes [218,5 161 have been discussed and their performance was investigated over perfectly interleaved, non-dispersive Rayleigh fading channels. A range of systems consisting of space-time block codes and different channel codecs were investigated. The performance versus estimated complexity trad