Speeding up the sphere decoder with H∞ and SDP inspired lower bounds

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 712-726

  Stojnic, Mihailo ^a   Vikalo, Haris ^a   Hassibi, Babak ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound algorithm; Convex optimization; Expected complexity; H estimation; Integer least squares; Maximum likelihood (ML) detection; Sphere decoding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTIMIZATION;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; EXPECTED COMPLEXITY; INTEGER LEAST-SQUARES; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD DETECTION; SPHERE DECODING;

DECODING;

EID: 39649113322     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2007.906697     Document Type: Article

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