Reduced complexity maximum likelihood detection for V-BLAST systems
He, L.; Ge, H.
Military Communications Conference, 2003. MILCOM 2003. IEEE
Volume 2, Issue , 13-16 Oct. 2003 Page(s): 1386 - 1391 Vol.2
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MILCOM.2003.1290429
Summary: Proposed and studied in this work is a reduced complexity maximum likelihood (ML) detection scheme, which uses a predecoder guided local exhaustive search, for V-BLAST systems. A polygon searching algorithm and an ordered successive interference cancellation (O-SIC) sphere searching algorithm are major components of the proposed multistep ML detectors. The effects of predecoder's performance on the total decoding complexity was studied by simulation. The complexity of the proposed algorithm depends on the operating signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the system. At reasonable high SNRs, its complexity is comparable to that of O-SIC algorithm, a commonly used decoding algorithm for V-BLAST. For V-BLAST systems using a large number of transmit antennas, we also propose a new detection algorithm termed ordered group-wise interference cancellation (O-GIC) to further reduce decoding complexity. The O-GIC based detection scheme is not a ML detection scheme, however, its performance is shown to outperform that of the O-SIC.
View citation and abstract |