Spatial multiplexing is used in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless systems to increase the data rate. Some nonlinear detectors, such as minimum mean square error (MMSE) Vertical Bell laboratories layered space-time (VBLAST), Maximum A-Posteriori (MMSE VBLAST MAP), and MMSE Improved VBLAST detectors are used in place of a over more complex detector, such as maximum likelihood detector or singular value decomposition based detector. We have presented simulation results of MIMO symbol error rate versus average SNR for MMSE VBLAST MAP and MMSE Improved VBLAST schemes assuming spatially correlated channels for M-ary QAM. We have observed that the performance of MMSE VBLAST MAP and MMSE Improved VBLAST detectors is almost identical in spatially uncorrelated channels. However, in the case of spatially correlated channels, MMSE Improved VBLAST outperforms MMSE VBLAST MAP. We have also seen that complexity of the Improved VBLAST algorithm is higher than the complexity of VBLAST MAP algorithm.
In this paper, we consider Mt×M system (Mt > M), where Mt and M are the numbers of antennas at the transmitter and receiver, respectively. We select M out of Mt transmit antennas using two different antenna selection schemes. In scheme 1, we select the subset of M antennas out of…
Spatial correlation is a crucial impairment for practical Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication systems. It is important to consider spatial correlation between antennas in actual communication scenario at both sides, i.e. transmit and receive side. Further…
In this paper, we present novel semi-blind channel estimation schemes for Rayleigh fading Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) channel. Here channel matrix H is decomposed as an upper triangular matrix R, which can be estimated blindly using the Householder transformation based QR dec…
In this article, a novel semi-blind channel estimation scheme for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system is studied and implemented for quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel, in which channel matrix H remains relatively constant throughout the block. Channel ma…
Anovel point-to-point symbol detection algorithm in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system is proposed. This algorithm is an augmentation of two popular algorithms, namely, vertical Bell laboratories layered space-time (VBLAST) and maximum a posteriori probability (MAP). He…