Performance: complexity comparison of receivers for a LTE MIMO-OFDM system

  • Authors:
  • Johanna Ketonen;Markku Juntti;Joseph R. Cavallaro

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland;Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Implementation of receivers for spatial multiplexing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (OFDM) systems is considered. The linear minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) and the K-best list sphere detector (LSD) are compared to the iterative successive interference cancellation (SIC) detector and the iterative -best LSD. The performance of the algorithms is evaluated in 3G long-term evolution (LTE) system. The SIC algorithm is found to perform worse than the K-best LSD when the MIMO channels are highly correlated, while the performance difference diminishes when the correlation decreases. The receivers are designed for 2 × 2 and 4 × 4 antenna systems and three different modulation schemes. Complexity results for FPGA and ASIC implementations are found. A modification to the K-best LSD which increases its detection rate is introduced. The ASIC receivers are designed to meet the decoding throughput requirements in LTE and the K-best LSD is found to be the most complex receiver although it gives the best reliable data transmission throughput. The SIC receiver has the best performance-complexity tradeoff in the 2 × 2 system but in the 4 × 4 case, the K-best LSD is the most efficient. A receiver architecture which could be reconfigured to using a simple or a more complex detector as the channel conditions change would achieve the best performance while consuming the least amount of power in the receiver.