A Low Complexity Turbo MMSE Receiver for W-LAN MIMO Systems

In this paper we consider an iterative detection and decoding scheme for Space-Frequency-Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation (SF-BICM) MIMO-OFDM systems as a candidate receiver architecture for Next Generation Wireless LANs. This work is focused on the implementation complexity reduction of the overall turbo MIMO scheme through the simplification of the three main blocks: the Soft-Interference-Canceller, the MMSE-MIMO detector and the MIMO Soft-Symbol demapper which uses extrinsic soft information, produced by a Soft-Output-Viterbi-Algorithm (SOVA), to perform the LLRs calculation of the coded bits. A new receiver architecture is proposed, its computational complexity is estimated and compared with a more classical turbo MMSE receiver, both for 16-QAM and 64-QAM constellations.

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