A Component-Level Soft Interference Cancellation Based Iterative Detection Algorithm for Coded MIMO Systems

An iterative detection and decoding (IDD) scheme based on component-level soft cancellation (CLSC) and linear minimum mean-squared error (LMMSE) filtering for turbo coded multiple input multiple output (MIMO) multiplexing systems is proposed in this work. By exploiting the independence between the In-phase and Quadrature-phase branch, more accurate soft interference cancellation is realized. Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) characteristics of the IDD system show that the proposed scheme exhibit faster convergence speed than the conventional one. Numerical results validate that the CLSC-LMMSE based detection algorithm achieves noticeable bit error rate (BER) performance over symbol-level soft cancelation (SLSC) based one, with only marginal complexity increase.