• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.506-509
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• 2009

This paper studies about reducing the complexity of ML detection in MIMO/V-blast system, based on MMSE and ZF linear detectors. Beforehand, the receiver detects the signal using the linear detector such as ZF or MMSE. Moreover, the next step is to assess whether the signal is reliable or not by verifying the reliability condition, if the latter is reliable then it is the output if not it has to be detected by the advanced detector until the reliability condition is verified.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.11
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• pp.2405-2411
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• 2009

MMSE, ZF and ML are the decoding mechanisms for V-BLAST system, and ML shows the best performance decoding the original signal among them. However, it has a problem that the computation complexity is increased exponentially according to the number of transmit antennas and transmit degrees. In this paper, we propose a low complexity linear ML detection algorithm having low computation complexity, then analyze the system performance in BER and computation complexity comparing with other algorithms. In the simulation, the BER performance of the proposed algorithm is superior than ZF and MMSE detection algorithms, and similar to ML detection algorithm. However, its computation complexity was 50% less than ML algorithm. From the results, we confirm that the proposed algorithm is superior than other ML detection algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.11A
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• pp.1244-1252
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• 2004

In this paper, we derive some properties of linear detectors (zero forcing or minimum mean square error) at spatial multiplexing systems with alamouti's space-time block code. Based on the derived properies, this paper proposes low-complexity receivers. Implementing MMSE detector adaptively, the number of weight vectors to be calculated and updated is greatly reduced with the derived properties compared to the conventional methods. In the case of recursive least square algorithm, with the proposed approach computational complexity is reduced to less than the half. We also identify that sorted QR decomposition detector, which reduces the complexity of V-Blast detector, has the same properties for unitary matrix Q and upper triangular matrix R. A complexity reduction of about 50%, for sorted QR decomposition detector, can be achieved by using those properties without the loss of performance.