Space-Time Equalizers for MIMO High Speed WCDMA Downlinks

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications based on multiple transmit and receive antennae will be applied to enhance the data rates of the third generation (3G) cellular systems or wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) and in particular, their high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) services. This causes both spatial multiplexing interference (SMI) and downlink multiple access interference (MAI). In this paper, we derive an improved linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) detector approximation suitable for MIMO-WCDMA systems. We also propose a new two-stage receiver architecture to suppress the effects of both MAI and SMI in HSDPA communications. SMI often dominates MAI, since it does not benefit from spreading gain. Therefore, a spatial maximum a posteriori (MAP) detector is used to suppress SMI, and a LMMSE based channel equalizer is applied as its front- end. The performance of the resulting LMMSE-MAP receiver structure is studied via Monte Carlo computer simulations with assumptions very realistically mimicking those of the HSDPA specification. The results show that it clearly outperforms the rake receiver or the improved LMMSE equalizer approximation, which, on the other hand, is also shown to be superior to the more conventional LMMSE equalizers.

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