  We present a novel differential space-time modulation (DSTM) scheme that is
single-symbol decodable and can provide full transmit diversity. It is the
first known singlesymbol- decodable DSTM scheme not based on Orthogonal STBC
(O-STBC), and it is constructed based on the recently proposed
Minimum-Decoding-Complexity Quasi-Orthogonal Space-Time Block Code
(MDC-QOSTBC). We derive the code design criteria and present systematic
methodology to find the solution sets. The proposed DSTM scheme can provide
higher code rate than DSTM schemes based on O-STBC. Its decoding complexity is
also considerably lower than DSTM schemes based on Sp(2) and
double-symbol-decodable QOSTBC, with negligible or slight trade-off in decoding
error probability performance.
