%0 Journal Article %T Diversidad en transmisi¨®n con selecci¨®n escalonada de c¨®digo espacio temporal %A Mavares T %A Dimas %A Torres %A Rafael P %A Torres %A V¨ªctor L %J Universidad, Ciencia y Tecnolog¨ªa %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this paper, an adaptive transmision technique for multiple transmitter antennas systems is proposed. the proposed technique, refered as space-time step selection, uses predetermined time intervals to transmit with different numbers of antennas, using space-time codes when more than one transmitter antenna is selected. the time intervals using for transmission are found offline through simulations, as a function of the maximum doppler frequency. simulation results show that the proposed technique achieves a gain of around 2db w.r.t. one single antenna selection system, and around 1db w.r.t. a two antennas selection system using alamouti coding. computation complexity is limited to a channel ranking at the receiver and feedback information requeriments are very low. %K antenna selection %K transmission diversity %K adaptive transmission %K space-time coding. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1316-48212009000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en