LDPC-coded MIMO systems with unknown block fading channels: Soft MIMO detector design, channel estimation, and code optimization

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1504-1518

  Zheng, Jun ^a   Rao, Bhaskar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Degree profile optimization; EM estimator; Extrinsic information transfer (EXIT) chart; Iteractive receiver structure; Joint channel estimation and data detection; LDPC coded multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system; Soft input soft output MIMO detector

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); FEEDBACK; OPTIMIZATION; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; TRANSMITTERS;

DATA DETECTION; DEGREE PROFILE OPTIMIZATION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION (EM) ESTIMATOR; EXTRINSIC INFORMATION TRANSFER (EXIT)-CHART; ITERATIVE RECEIVER STRUCTURE; JOINT CHANNEL ESTIMATION; LOW-DENSITY PARITY CHECK (LDPC); MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEM; SOFT-INPUT SOFT-OUTPUT MIMO DETECTOR;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33645294039     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.870565     Document Type: Article

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