A Low ML-Decoding Complexity, Full-Diversity, Full-Rate MIMO Precoder

Srinath, Pavan K and Rajan, Sundar B (2011) A Low ML-Decoding Complexity, Full-Diversity, Full-Rate MIMO Precoder. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, 59 (11). pp. 5485-5498.

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Abstract

Precoding for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems is considered with perfect channel knowledge available at both the transmitter and the receiver. For two transmit antennas and QAM constellations, a real-valued precoder which is approximately optimal (with respect to the minimum Euclidean distance between points in the received signal space) among real-valued precoders based on the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the channel is proposed. The proposed precoder is obtainable easily for arbitrary QAM constellations, unlike the known complex-valued optimal precoder by Collin et al. for two transmit antennas which is in existence for 4-QAM alone and is extremely hard to obtain for larger QAM constellations. The proposed precoding scheme is extended to higher number of transmit antennas on the lines of the E - d(min) precoder for 4-QAM by Vrigneau et al. which is an extension of the complex-valued optimal precoder for 4-QAM. The proposed precoder's ML-decoding complexity as a function of the constellation size M is only O(root M)while that of the E - d(min) precoder is O(M root M)(M = 4). Compared to the recently proposed X- and Y-precoders, the error performance of the proposed precoder is significantly better while being only marginally worse than that of the E - d(min) precoder for 4-QAM. It is argued that the proposed precoder provides full-diversity for QAM constellations and this is supported by simulation plots of the word error probability for 2 x 2, 4 x 4 and 8 x 8 systems.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	Diversity gain;low ML-decoding complexity;multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) precoders;singular values;word error probability
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Communication Engineering
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2012 11:55
Last Modified:	03 Jan 2012 11:55
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/42614

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