Iterative joint detection and decoding of LDPC-Coded V-BLAST systems
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Tsai, Meng-Ying (Brady)
Date
2008-07-10T12:34:13Z
Type
thesis
Language
eng
Keyword
Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (BLAST) , Soft-input soft-output detectors , Low-density parity check (LDPC) codes , Iterative decoding , Joint detection and decoding
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Soft iterative detection and decoding techniques have been shown to be able to achieve near-capacity performance in multiple-antenna systems. To obtain the optimal soft information by marginalization over the entire observation space is intractable; and the current literature is unable to guide us towards the best way to obtain the suboptimal soft information. In this thesis, several existing soft-input soft-output (SISO) detectors, including minimum mean-square error-successive interference cancellation (MMSE-SIC), list sphere decoding (LSD), and Fincke-Pohst maximum-a-posteriori (FPMAP), are examined. Prior research has demonstrated that LSD and FPMAP outperform soft-equalization methods (i.e., MMSE-SIC); however, it is unclear which of the two scheme is superior in terms of performance-complexity trade-off. A comparison is conducted to resolve the matter. In addition, an improved scheme is proposed to modify LSD and FPMAP, providing error performance improvement and a reduction in computational complexity simultaneously. Although list-type detectors such as LSD and FPMAP provide outstanding error performance, issues such as the optimal initial sphere radius, optimal radius update strategy, and their highly variable computational complexity are still unresolved. A new detection scheme is proposed to address the above issues with fixed detection complexity, making the scheme suitable for practical implementation.
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Thesis (Master, Electrical & Computer Engineering) -- Queen's University, 2008-07-08 19:29:17.66
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