Complexity gain of QR decomposition based sphere decoder in LTE receivers

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Aubert, Sébastien ^a,b   Nouvel, Fabienne ^a,b   Nafkha, Amor ^c  

^a ST NXP Wireless   (France)

^b IETR   (France)

^c SUPELEC Campus de Rennes   (France)

Author keywords

Householder; LTE; MIMO detection; QR decomposition; Sphere decoder

Indexed keywords

CONSTELLATION SIZES; DETECTION TECHNIQUE; EXPECTED COMPLEXITY; GRAM-SCHMIDT; MIMO DETECTION; ORTHONORMALIZATION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PREPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; Q R DECOMPOSITION; SPHERE DECODERS; SPHERE DECODING;

DECODING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPHERES;

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY;

EID: 77951469358     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECF.2009.5378998     Document Type: Conference Paper

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