Rapid prototyping of a fixed-throughput sphere decoder for MIMO systems

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 3082-3087

  Barbero, Luis G ^a   Thompson, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; DECODING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); RAPID PROTOTYPING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DETECTION ALGORITHMS; SPHERE DECODER (SD);

MIMO SYSTEMS;

EID: 42549123223     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.255278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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