Advanced receiver algorithms for MIMO wireless communications

  • Authors:
  • A. Burg;M. Borgmann;M. Wenk;C. Studer;H. Bölcskei

  • Affiliations:
  • Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Communication Technology Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zurich 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;Communication Technology Laboratory, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe: Proceedings
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We describe the VLSI implementation of MIMO detectors that exhibit close-to optimum error-rate performance, but still achieve high throughput at low silicon area. In particular, algorithms and VLSI architectures for sphere decoding (SD) and K-best detection are considered, and the corresponding trade-offs between uncoded error-rate performance, silicon area, and throughput are explored. We show that SD with a per-block run-time constraint is best suited for practical implementations.