spheredecoders are widely investigated for the implementation of multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) *** a large number of sphere decoding algorithms,the fixed-complexity sphere decoder(FSD) exhibits remarkable adva...
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spheredecoders are widely investigated for the implementation of multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) *** a large number of sphere decoding algorithms,the fixed-complexity sphere decoder(FSD) exhibits remarkable advantages in terms of constant throughput and high flexibility of parallel *** this paper,we present a four-nodes-per-cycle parallel FSD architecture with balanced performance and hardware complexity,and several examples of VLSI implementation for different types of modulation and both real and complex signal *** aspects and architecture details are analyzed in order to present a hardware-level perspective of the FSD *** a variety of performance-complexity trade-offs are *** implementation results show that the proposed parallel FSD architecture is highly efficient and flexible,especially in the complex signal model.
fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) is an quasi-optimal detector for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system which is a hardware-friendly parallel tree-search customised to the modulation and antenna scheme emp...
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(纸本)9781665401449
fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) is an quasi-optimal detector for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) system which is a hardware-friendly parallel tree-search customised to the modulation and antenna scheme employed. However, it is not able to adapt its behaviour for various modulation and antenna schemes, as demanded by modern wireless standard. This restricts its usage in modern adaptive MIMO systems. This paper proposes a solution to this problem. A configurable FSD structure in proposed where normalized higher order modulation schemes can accommodate lower ones. By exploiting clock-gating, FSD of all modulation schemes is equally trimmed to allow power savings of over 30% when implementing on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). This architecture enables the facility to balance the power consumptions with compatible information rate in dynamic, adaptive MIMO communications environments.
fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) is a recently proposed technique for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection. It has several outstanding features such as constant throughput and large potential paralleli...
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(纸本)9780769541716
fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) is a recently proposed technique for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection. It has several outstanding features such as constant throughput and large potential parallelism, which makes it suitable for efficient VLSI implementation. However, to our best knowledge, no VLSI implementation of FSD has been reported in the literature, although some FPGA prototypes of FSD with pipeline architecture have been developed. These solutions achieve very high throughput but at very high cost of hardware resources, making them impractical in real applications. In this paper, we present a novel four-nodes-per-cycle parallel architecture of FSD, with a breadth-first processing that allows for short critical path. The implementation achieves a throughput of 213.3 Mbps at 400 MHz clock frequency, at a cost of 0.18 mm(2) Silicon area on 0.13 mu m CMOS technology. The proposed solution is much more economical compared with the existing FPGA implementations, and very suitable for practical applications because of its balanced performance and hardware complexity;moreover it has the flexibility to be expanded into an eight-nodes-per-cycle version in order to double the throughput.
In this paper, we propose a low-complexity multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection algorithm with lattice-reduction-aided fixed-complexity tree searching which is motivated by the fixed-complexitysphere decod...
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In this paper, we propose a low-complexity multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection algorithm with lattice-reduction-aided fixed-complexity tree searching which is motivated by the fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD). As the proposed scheme generates a fixed tree whose size is much smaller than that of the full expansion in the FSD, the computational complexity is reduced considerably. Nevertheless, the proposed scheme achieves a near-maximum-likelihood (ML) performance with a large number of transmit antennas and a high-order modulation. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance degradation of the proposed scheme is less than 0.5 dB at the bit error rate (BER) of 10(-5) for a 8 x 8 MIMO system with 256 QAM. Also, the proposed method reduces the complexity to about 1.23% of the corresponding FSD complexity.
This paper presents a cost-efficient soft-output signal detector design solution targeting on the spatial-multiplexing MIMO system. The detector achieves low hardware cost and near-optimal detection performance based ...
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(纸本)9781457713484
This paper presents a cost-efficient soft-output signal detector design solution targeting on the spatial-multiplexing MIMO system. The detector achieves low hardware cost and near-optimal detection performance based on the modification to the fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) using several implementation-oriented algorithm-level improvements, which are early-pruning with polygon-shaped constraint, symbol-level bit-flipping, and l(1)-norm approximation. To evaluate the proposed method, we implement the MIMO detector in a 65-nm standard V-T CMOS technology. The core area is 0.14 mm(2) with 69 K equivalent gates, representing a 60% hardware-resource saving to the state-of-the-art in the open literature. The detecting throughput is up to 1.5Gb/s at 250-MHz clock frequency and 1.2-V supply. The normalized energy consumption of 36.4 pJ/b is shown to be the most energy-efficient design compared with other soft-output detectors.
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