Simplified Detection for DVB-NGH MIMO Decoders

Nowadays, communication systems need to satisfy very demanding constraints in order to cope with users new necessities. One of the most promising techniques to improve the system capacity is multiple input multiple output (MIMO). However, the use of MIMO implies a huge complexity increase in the detection process. In this paper, a method to reduce the aforementioned complexity is presented. Although the proposed method is analyzed for digital video broadcasting next generation for handhelds, its implementation is useful for any MIMO system that requires the computation of log likelihood ratios (LLRs), used by the low density parity check codes. The presented technique consists of applying a simplification when calculating the Euclidean distances needed by the LLRs. The simplification avoids almost all the multiplications, very area demanding when translated into hardware, and presents a performance loss under 0.1 dB.