Low complexity optimal soft MIMO receiver
US8060811B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 12, 2008 |
| Grant date | Nov 15, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 29, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L2025/03426
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A low-complexity optimal soft MIMO detector is provided for a general spatial multiplexing (SM) systems with two transmit and NR receive antennas. The computational complexity of the proposed scheme is independent from the operating signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and grows linearly with the constellation order. It provides the optimal maximum likelihood (ML) solution through the introduction of an efficient Log-likelihood ratio (LLR) calculation method, avoiding the exhaustive search over all possible nodes. The intrinsic parallelism makes it an appropriate option for implementation on DSPs, FPGAs, or ASICs. In specific, this MIMO detection architecture is very suitable to be applied in WiMax receivers based on IEEE 802.16e/m in both downlink (subscriber station) and uplink (base station).
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