Ordinary Differential Equation-Based MIMO Signal Detection

The required signal processing rate in future wireless communication systems exceeds the performance of the latest electronics-based processors. Introduction of analog optical computation is one promising direction for energy-efficient processing. This paper considers a continuous-time minimum mean squared error detection for multiple-input multiple-output systems to realize signal detection using analog optical devices. The proposed method is formulated by an ordinary differential equation (ODE) and its performance at any continuous time can be theoretically analyzed. Deriving and analyzing the continuous-time system is a meaningful step to verifying the feasibility of analog-domain signal processing in the future systems. In addition, considering such an ODE brings byproducts to discrete-time detection algorithms, which can be a novel methodology of algorithm construction and analysis.