Simplified Maximum-Likelihood Decoder for V-BLAST Architecture

  • Le Minh-Tuan (students in Communication and Electronics Lab(CEL), Information and Communications University(ICU)) ;
  • Pham Van-Su (students in Communication and Electronics Lab(CEL), Information and Communications University(ICU)) ;
  • Mai Linh (students in Communication and Electronics Lab(CEL), Information and Communications University(ICU)) ;
  • Yoon Giwan (Information and Communications University(ICU))
  • Published : 2005.06.01

Abstract

In this paper, a low-complexity maximum-likelihood (ML) decoder based on QR decomposition, called real-valued LCMLDec decoder or RVLCMLDec for short, is proposed for the Vertical Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) architecture, a promising candidate for providing high data rates in future fixed wireless communication systems [1]. Computer simulations, in comparison with other detection techniques, show that the proposed decoder is capable of providing the V­BLAST schemes with ML performance at low detection complexity

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