55 research outputs found
A Fast Decodable Full-Rate STBC with High Coding Gain for 4x2 MIMO Systems
In this work, a new fast-decodable space-time block code (STBC) is proposed.
The code is full-rate and full-diversity for 4x2 multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) transmission. Due to the unique structure of the codeword, the proposed
code requires a much lower computational complexity to provide
maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding performance. It is shown that the ML decoding
complexity is only O(M^{4.5}) when M-ary square QAM constellation is used.
Finally, the proposed code has highest minimum determinant among the
fast-decodable STBCs known in the literature. Simulation results prove that the
proposed code provides the best bit error rate (BER) performance among the
state-of-the-art STBCs.Comment: 2013 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile
Radio Communications (PIMRC), London : United Kingdom (2013
Multiple Beamforming with Perfect Coding
Perfect Space-Time Block Codes (PSTBCs) achieve full diversity, full rate,
nonvanishing constant minimum determinant, uniform average transmitted energy
per antenna, and good shaping. However, the high decoding complexity is a
critical issue for practice. When the Channel State Information (CSI) is
available at both the transmitter and the receiver, Singular Value
Decomposition (SVD) is commonly applied for a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
(MIMO) system to enhance the throughput or the performance. In this paper, two
novel techniques, Perfect Coded Multiple Beamforming (PCMB) and Bit-Interleaved
Coded Multiple Beamforming with Perfect Coding (BICMB-PC), are proposed,
employing both PSTBCs and SVD with and without channel coding, respectively.
With CSI at the transmitter (CSIT), the decoding complexity of PCMB is
substantially reduced compared to a MIMO system employing PSTBC, providing a
new prospect of CSIT. Especially, because of the special property of the
generation matrices, PCMB provides much lower decoding complexity than the
state-of-the-art SVD-based uncoded technique in dimensions 2 and 4. Similarly,
the decoding complexity of BICMB-PC is much lower than the state-of-the-art
SVD-based coded technique in these two dimensions, and the complexity gain is
greater than the uncoded case. Moreover, these aforementioned complexity
reductions are achieved with only negligible or modest loss in performance.Comment: accepted to journa
A New Low-Complexity Decodable Rate-5/4 STBC for Four Transmit Antennas with Nonvanishing Determinants
The use of Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) increases significantly the optimal
detection complexity at the receiver unless the low-complexity decodability
property is taken into consideration in the STBC design. In this paper we
propose a new low-complexity decodable rate-5/4 full-diversity 4 x 4 STBC. We
provide an analytical proof that the proposed code has the
Non-Vanishing-Determinant (NVD) property, a property that can be exploited
through the use of adaptive modulation which changes the transmission rate
according to the wireless channel quality. We compare the proposed code to the
best existing low-complexity decodable rate-5/4 full-diversity 4 x 4 STBC in
terms of performance over quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels, worst- case
complexity, average complexity, and Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR). Our
code is found to provide better performance, lower average decoding complexity,
and lower PAPR at the expense of a slight increase in worst-case decoding
complexity.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures and 1 table; IEEE Global Telecommunications
Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), 201
Optimization of Fast-Decodable Full-Rate STBC with Non-Vanishing Determinants
Full-rate STBC (space-time block codes) with non-vanishing determinants
achieve the optimal diversity-multiplexing tradeoff but incur high decoding
complexity. To permit fast decoding, Sezginer, Sari and Biglieri proposed an
STBC structure with special QR decomposition characteristics. In this paper, we
adopt a simplified form of this fast-decodable code structure and present a new
way to optimize the code analytically. We show that the signal constellation
topology (such as QAM, APSK, or PSK) has a critical impact on the existence of
non-vanishing determinants of the full-rate STBC. In particular, we show for
the first time that, in order for APSK-STBC to achieve non-vanishing
determinant, an APSK constellation topology with constellation points lying on
square grid and ring radius \sqrt{m^2+n^2} (m,n\emph{\emph{integers}}) needs
to be used. For signal constellations with vanishing determinants, we present a
methodology to analytically optimize the full-rate STBC at specific
constellation dimension.Comment: Accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communication
Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple Beamforming with Perfect Coding
When the Channel State Information (CSI) is known by both the transmitter and
the receiver, beamforming techniques employing Singular Value Decomposition
(SVD) are commonly used in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems.
Without channel coding, there is a trade-off between full diversity and full
multiplexing. When channel coding is added, both of them can be achieved as
long as the code rate Rc and the number of employed subchannels S satisfy the
condition RcS<=1. By adding a properly designed constellation precoder, both
full diversity and full multiplexing can be achieved for both uncoded and coded
systems with the trade-off of a higher decoding complexity, e.g., Fully
Precoded Multiple Beamforming (FPMB) and Bit-Interleaved Coded Multiple
Beamforming with Full Precoding (BICMB-FP) without the condition RcS<=1.
Recently discovered Perfect Space-Time Block Code (PSTBC) is a full-rate
full-diversity space-time code, which achieves efficient shaping and high
coding gain for MIMO systems. In this paper, a new technique, Bit-Interleaved
Coded Multiple Beamforming with Perfect Coding (BICMB-PC), is introduced.
BICMB-PC transmits PSTBCs through convolutional coded SVD systems. Similar to
BICMB-FP, BICMB-PC achieves both full diversity and full multiplexing, and its
performance is almost the same as BICMB-FP. The advantage of BICMB-PC is that
it can provide a much lower decoding complexity than BICMB-FP, since the real
and imaginary parts of the received signal can be separated for BICMB-PC of
dimensions 2 and 4, and only the part corresponding to the coded bit is
required to acquire one bit metric for the Viterbi decoder.Comment: accepted to conference; Proc. IEEE ICC 201
Achieving Low-Complexity Maximum-Likelihood Detection for the 3D MIMO Code
The 3D MIMO code is a robust and efficient space-time block code (STBC) for
the distributed MIMO broadcasting but suffers from high maximum-likelihood (ML)
decoding complexity. In this paper, we first analyze some properties of the 3D
MIMO code to show that the 3D MIMO code is fast-decodable. It is proved that
the ML decoding performance can be achieved with a complexity of O(M^{4.5})
instead of O(M^8) in quasi static channel with M-ary square QAM modulations.
Consequently, we propose a simplified ML decoder exploiting the unique
properties of 3D MIMO code. Simulation results show that the proposed
simplified ML decoder can achieve much lower processing time latency compared
to the classical sphere decoder with Schnorr-Euchner enumeration
An Adaptive Conditional Zero-Forcing Decoder with Full-diversity, Least Complexity and Essentially-ML Performance for STBCs
A low complexity, essentially-ML decoding technique for the Golden code and
the 3 antenna Perfect code was introduced by Sirianunpiboon, Howard and
Calderbank. Though no theoretical analysis of the decoder was given, the
simulations showed that this decoding technique has almost maximum-likelihood
(ML) performance. Inspired by this technique, in this paper we introduce two
new low complexity decoders for Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs) - the Adaptive
Conditional Zero-Forcing (ACZF) decoder and the ACZF decoder with successive
interference cancellation (ACZF-SIC), which include as a special case the
decoding technique of Sirianunpiboon et al. We show that both ACZF and ACZF-SIC
decoders are capable of achieving full-diversity, and we give sufficient
conditions for an STBC to give full-diversity with these decoders. We then show
that the Golden code, the 3 and 4 antenna Perfect codes, the 3 antenna Threaded
Algebraic Space-Time code and the 4 antenna rate 2 code of Srinath and Rajan
are all full-diversity ACZF/ACZF-SIC decodable with complexity strictly less
than that of their ML decoders. Simulations show that the proposed decoding
method performs identical to ML decoding for all these five codes. These STBCs
along with the proposed decoding algorithm outperform all known codes in terms
of decoding complexity and error performance for 2,3 and 4 transmit antennas.
We further provide a lower bound on the complexity of full-diversity
ACZF/ACZF-SIC decoding. All the five codes listed above achieve this lower
bound and hence are optimal in terms of minimizing the ACZF/ACZF-SIC decoding
complexity. Both ACZF and ACZF-SIC decoders are amenable to sphere decoding
implementation.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. Corrected a minor typographical erro
Generalized Silver Codes
For an transmit, receive antenna system (
system), a {\it{full-rate}} space time block code (STBC) transmits complex symbols per channel use. The well known Golden code is an
example of a full-rate, full-diversity STBC for 2 transmit antennas. Its
ML-decoding complexity is of the order of for square -QAM. The
Silver code for 2 transmit antennas has all the desirable properties of the
Golden code except its coding gain, but offers lower ML-decoding complexity of
the order of . Importantly, the slight loss in coding gain is negligible
compared to the advantage it offers in terms of lowering the ML-decoding
complexity. For higher number of transmit antennas, the best known codes are
the Perfect codes, which are full-rate, full-diversity, information lossless
codes (for ) but have a high ML-decoding complexity of the order
of (for , the punctured Perfect codes are
considered). In this paper, a scheme to obtain full-rate STBCs for
transmit antennas and any with reduced ML-decoding complexity of the
order of , is presented. The codes constructed are
also information lossless for , like the Perfect codes and allow
higher mutual information than the comparable punctured Perfect codes for . These codes are referred to as the {\it generalized Silver codes},
since they enjoy the same desirable properties as the comparable Perfect codes
(except possibly the coding gain) with lower ML-decoding complexity, analogous
to the Silver-Golden codes for 2 transmit antennas. Simulation results of the
symbol error rates for 4 and 8 transmit antennas show that the generalized
Silver codes match the punctured Perfect codes in error performance while
offering lower ML-decoding complexity.Comment: Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory. This revised version has 30 pages, 7 figures and Section III has been
completely revise
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