Title
Systolic like soft-detection architecture for 4×4 64-QAM MIMO system
Abstract
MIMO systems (with multiple transmit and receive antennas) are becoming increasingly popular, and many next-generation systems such as WiMAX, 3-GPP LTE and IEEE802.11n wireless LANs relay on the increased throughput of MIMO systems with up to four antennas at receiver and transmitter. High throughput implementation of the detection unit for MIMO systems is a significant challenge especially for higher order modulation schemes. To achieve superior Bit Error Rate (BER) or Frame Error Rate (FER) performance, the detector has to provide soft values to advanced Forward Error Correction (FEC) schemes like Turbo Codes. This paper presents a systolic soft detector architecture for high dimensional (eg. 4times4, 64-QAM) MIMO systems. A Single detector core achieves, throughput of 215 Mbps and power consumption of 23.6 mW, whiles using only 33.1 K gate equivalent (for l2 norm). Impressive SNR gains of almost 2 dB are observed with respect to the hard detection counterpart over a block fading channel (at an FER of 1%). Additionally, the architecture can be stacked to give linear increase in throughput with linear increase in hardware resources.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/DATE.2009.5090784
Nice
Keywords
Field
DocType
MIMO communication,forward error correction,quadrature amplitude modulation,receiving antennas,turbo codes,3-GPP LTE,IEEE802.11n wireless LAN,MIMO receiver antenna,QAM MIMO system,WiMAX,bit error rate performance,bit rate 215 Mbit/s,block fading channel,forward error correction scheme,frame error rate performance,gate equivalent SNR gain,power 23.6 mW,systolic soft-detection architecture,turbo code
Forward error correction,3G MIMO,Multi-user MIMO,Computer science,Fading,Turbo code,MIMO,WiMAX,Real-time computing,Electronic engineering,Bit error rate
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1591
978-1-4244-3781-8
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pankaj Bhagawat1162.20
Rajballav Dash2182.06
Gwan Choi336956.66