Area-efficient configurable high-throughput signal detector supporting multiple MIMO modes

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2085-2096

  Liu, Liang ^a   Löfgren, Johan ^a   Nilsson, Peter ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Configurable; multiple input multiple output (MIMO); signal detector; space division multiple access (SDMA); spatial diversity (SD); spatial multiplexing (SM); very large scale integration (VLSI)

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MIMO SYSTEMS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

CONFIGURABLE; SIGNAL DETECTORS; SPACE-DIVISION MULTIPLE-ACCESS (SDMA); SPATIAL DIVERSITY; SPATIAL MULTIPLEXING;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84865700118     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2012.2185297     Document Type: Article

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