A low complexity branch-and-bound-based decoder for V-BLAST systems with PSK signals

  • Authors:
  • Minh-Tuan Le;Van-Su Pham;Linh Mai;Giwan Yoon

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Electronics No. 1, Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), Km 10, Nguyen Trai Street, Ha Dong City, Ha Tay, Viet Nam;School of Engineering, Information and Communications University (ICU), 103-6 Munji-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-732, Republic of Korea;School of Engineering, Information and Communications University (ICU), 103-6 Munji-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-732, Republic of Korea;School of Engineering, Information and Communications University (ICU), 103-6 Munji-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-732, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, a fast sphere decoder is proposed for the joint detection of phase-shift keying (PSK) signals in uncoded Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space Time (V-BLAST) systems. The proposed decoder consists of preprocessing stage and search stage. The preprocessing stage is based on the enhancement of the ordering mean square error decision feedback equalizer (MMSE-DFE). Its role is to generate a tree structure suitable for the search stage. The search stage relies on the depth-first brand-and-bound (BB) algorithm with ''best-first'' orders stored in lookup tables. Simulation results show that the proposed decoder is able to provide the system with the maximum likelihood (ML) performance at low complexity.