Electrical & Computer Engineering, Department of
Date of this Version
12-2004
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 has an exponential complexity when the constellation size of number of transmit antennas increase. A number of sub-optimal decoders, such as VBLAST, provide linear decoding only where the number of receive antennas is at least equal to the number of transmit antennas.
Certain Asterism decoding described a scheme that achieved ML performance for PSK MIMO systems. By considering the larger complex constellation created by a multiple transmit antennas and a single receive antenna. The decoder was then extended to achieve ML like performance for any number of receive antennas.
This paper investigates the extension of Asterism decoding for QAM modulation schemes. It further shows that Asterism decoding has an approximate order of magnitude reduction in computational complexity when compared to ML decoding, and shows that this reduction is possible not only for Rayleigh fading channels, but also most Rician flat fading channels.
Comments
Published in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP'2004), Adelaide, Australia (December 20-22, 2004) (5 p.). Copyright 2004, IEEE. Used by permission.