Receivers for Spatially Multiplexed Space-Time Block Coded Systems : Reduced Complexity

시공간블록부호화를 적용한 공간다중화 시스템 수신기 : 복잡도 감소 방안

  • 황현철 (인하대학교 전자공학과 통신공학연구실) ;
  • 신승훈 (인하대학교 UWB-ITRC) ;
  • 이철진 (인하대학교 정보통신공학과 통신공학연구실) ;
  • 곽경섭 (인하대학교 정보통신학원)
  • Published : 2004.11.01

Abstract

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.

본 논문에서는 Alamouti의 시공간블록부호화를 적용한 다중화 시스템에서 선형 검출기 (zero forcing 또는 minimum mean square error)의 특성을 유도하고 이를 이용하여 수신기의 복잡도를 줄일 수 있는 방안을 제시한다. MMSE 검출기를 적응형으로 설계할 경우 계산해야 하는 가중치 벡터들의 수는 공간 다중화하여 전송한 심볼들의 수만큼 필요하지만 유도한 특성을 이용하면 STBC블록들의 수로 줄어든다. 적응형 알고리즘으로 RLS 알고리즘을 적용해 보았고 복잡도를 50%이상 줄일 수 있었다. 또한 V-Blast검출방법의 복잡도를 줄이기 위해 제안된 정렬QR분해 검출기를 본 시스템에 적용할 때 동일한 특성이 유니타리 행렬 Q와 상위삼각행렬 R에 나타나는 것을 확인하였고, 이 경우에도 성능의 저하 없이 복잡도를 50%까지 줄일 수 있었다.

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