Quadrature Spatial Modulation Aided Media-Based Modulation

In this work, we present the concept of quadrature spatial modulation aided media-based modulation (QSM-MBM), which combines QSM and MBM principles. The proposed two QSM-MBM schemes use dispersion matrices to generate QSM matrix and transmit it by designing two different channel state activation methods, which provides improved transmission rate, diversity gain as well as hardware simplicity. Simulations show that the proposed QSM-MBM schemes achieve remarkably better error performance than the existing MBM schemes.