A novel pre-processing and adaptive statistical threshold for sphere detection in MIMO systems

作者:Cao, Haiyan; Li, Jun*; Fang, Xin; Wang, Xiumin
来源:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2013, 275.
DOI:10.1186/1687-1499-2013-275

摘要

In this paper, an efficient sphere detection (SD) scheme for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is presented. The proposed SD scheme can substantially reduce computational complexity by introducing a pre-processing scheme and an adaptive threshold. In particular, our proposed pre-processing scheme is based on an iterative successive interference cancelation (SIC). The proposed adaptive threshold is used to judge whether a traversed path is correct or not and obtained by analyzing the distributions of the correct and erroneous estimates which have the minimum error pattern among all the SD searching paths. Simulation results show that our proposed scheme offers a substantial complexity reduction in terms of the number of visited nodes while keeping a significantly small performance degradation compared to conventional approaches.

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