Combined Asterism and Sphere decoder for large Asymmetric MIMO systems

Authors

Phillip Conder, University of Wollongong
Tadeusz Wysocki, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2005

Comments

Published in 2005 IEEE/Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communication, 18-19 April 2005; pages 73-76. Copyright 2005 IEEE.

Abstract

The area of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) communications systems has received enormous attention recently as they can provide a roughly linear increase in data rate by using Multiple Transmit and Receive antennas. The optimal detection strategy for a MIMO receiver is to perform a Maximum-Likelihood (ML) search over all possible transmitted symbol combinations which has an exponential complexity when the constellation size of number of transmit antennas increase. Sphere and Asterism decoders are schemes that achieved ML performance for MIMO systems, but both have shortcomings in computational complexity, Sphere decoding when n_t > n_r and Asterism when n_t < n_r. This paper combines Asterism and Sphere decoding for Asymmetric MIMO systems to reduce the overall computational complexity for any number of antennas.