Design and implementation of a sort-free K-best sphere decoder

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1497-1501

  Mondal, Sudip ^a   Eltawil, Ahmed ^b   Shen, Chung An ^b   Salama, Khaled N ^c  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

K best; multiple input multiple output (MIMO); sphere decoder; VSLI; wireless

Indexed keywords

K-BEST; MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT; SPHERE DECODER; VSLI; WIRELESS;

ARCHITECTURE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); MIMO SYSTEMS; SPHERES; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

DECODING;

EID: 77957579943     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2009.2025168     Document Type: Article

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