J4 ›› 2011, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (2): 13-17.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2011.02.003

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Novel low complexity sphere detection algorithm for MIMO spatial multiplex systems

REN Guangliang1;DUAN Xinli1;YU Guanghui2;YANG Lihua1   

  1. (1. State Key Lab. of Integrated Service Networks, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2. Dept. of Wireless Advanced Research, ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen  518057, China)
  • Received:2010-03-24 Online:2011-04-20 Published:2011-05-26
  • Contact: REN Guangliang E-mail:glren@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

A new hierarchical modulation based sphere detection algorithm (HBSD) is presented for the MIMO (multi-input multi-output) spatial multiplex system with high order modulation. In the algorithm, the constellations of MQAM (M-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) are divided into many regions by the hierarchical data in MQAM modulation. The candidate regions of the constellations are determined by the hard decision data of the layers with great weight factors in hierarchical modulation. The constellations are selected as the reserved constellations in the candidate regions using the minmum distance rule. SD (Sphere detection) is used to find the optimum transmitted vectors by searching for the reserved constellations in the candidate regions of all detection layers. Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed HBSD algorithm is better than that of the MSD (Multi-SD) algorithm, with its complexity being about one fifth that of the MSD algorithm.

Key words: hierarchical modulation, sphere detection, complexity