Adaptive reduced-rank MIMO decoder for military communications

  • Authors:
  • Patrick J. Honan;Ufuk Tureli;Zhongren Cao

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Design Solution, Inc., Clifton, NJ;Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ;California Institute for Telecommunications & Information Technology, University of California, San Diego

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose an adaptive reduced-rank solution for decoding spatial multiplexed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communications based on the multi-stage Wiener filter (MSWF). Spectral efficiency gains promised by spatial multiplexing schemes, such as vertical Bell Labs space time (V-BLAST) and space-division multiple access (SDMA), are difficult to realize for military applications where extreme channel conditions such as co-channel interference and intentional jamming can be expected. We show that the MSWF combined with successive interference (SIC) for spatial demultiplexing leads to significant signal subspace compression or rank-reduction. We propose for the MSWF-SIC a novel rank-reduction stopping rule that adapts to channel correlation and interference converges much faster than full rank methods permitting shorter training length and robustness to co-channel interference and jamming. Also, significant computational reduction is realized making this method a good candidate for portable applications where computational resources are limited. Bit error rate (BER) versus SNR for the correlated channel and for co-channel interference and SINR versus the MSWF rank-reduction and length of training interval are presented.