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A computationally efficient exact ML sphere decoder
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A computationally efficient exact ML sphere decoder

Weiyu Xu, Youzheng Wang, Zucheng Zhou and Jing Wang
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, 2004. GLOBECOM '04, Vol.4, pp.2594-2598 Vol.4
2004
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2004.1378474

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Abstract

Low-complexity tree search based exact maximum-likelihood (ML) detectors have gained attention for optimum signal detection in multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) wireless systems. In this paper, taking a fresher look at the closet lattice point search problem, we propose a new fast exact ML sphere decoder with ever-increasing radius (IR-SD). It is shown that IR-SD visits minimum number of tree nodes and is more computationally efficient than existing sphere decoders. IR-SD is also faster and requires less storage than ML stack detector. An upper-bound of expected computation and storage complexity of IR-SD independent of tree radius is derived. Numerical results validate that IR-SD greatly speeds up the ML detection than other sphere detectors while requiring less storage than ML stack algorithm. A factor-of-2.5 speed-up is observed over the depth-first Schnorr-Euchner sphere decoders when utilizing IR-SD in 16-QAM 10/spl times/10 complex MIMO system.
Detectors Euclidean distance Lattices Maximum likelihood decoding Maximum likelihood detection MIMO Receiving antennas Search problems Signal detection Transmitting antennas

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