Analogue MIMO detection

  • Authors:
  • Robert J. Piechocki;Jose Soler-Garrido;Darren McNamara;Joe McGeehan

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK;Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK;Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Queen Square, Bristol, UK;Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, Merchant Venturers Building, Bristol, UK and Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., Queen Square, Bristol, ...

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this contribution we propose an analogue receiver that can perform turbo detection in MIMO systems. We present the case for a receiver that is built from nonlinear analogue devices, which perform detection in a "free-flow" network (no notion of iterations). This contribution can be viewed as an extension of analogue turbo decoder concepts to include MIMO detection. These first analogue implementations report reductions of few orders of magnitude in the number of required transistors and in consumed energy, and the same order of improvement in processing speed. It is anticipated that such analogue MIMO decoder could bring about the same advantages, when compared to traditional digital implementations.