MIMO Sphere Decoding With Successive Interference Cancellation for Two-Dimensional Non-Uniform Constellations

[EN] Non-uniform constellations (NUCs) have been introduced to improve the performance of quadrature amplitude modulation constellations. 1D-NUCs keep the squared shape, while 2D-NUCs break that constraint to provide robustness. An impending problem with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is the...

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Autores: Barjau-Estevan, Carlos Salvador|||0000-0002-4258-6113, Gomez-Barquero, David|||0000-0003-2610-7765, Fuentes, Manuel, Shitomi, Takuya
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/111608
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/111608
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ATSC 3.0
Non-Uniform Constellations
MIMO
Sphere Decoder
Successive Interference Cancellation
TEORIA DE LA SEÑAL Y COMUNICACIONES
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Sumario:[EN] Non-uniform constellations (NUCs) have been introduced to improve the performance of quadrature amplitude modulation constellations. 1D-NUCs keep the squared shape, while 2D-NUCs break that constraint to provide robustness. An impending problem with multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is the optimum demapping complexity, which grows exponentially with the number of antennas and the constellation order. Some well-known sub-optimum MIMO demappers, such as soft fixed-complexity sphere decoders (SFSD), can reduce that complexity. However, SFSD demappers do not work with the 2D-NUCs, since they perform a quantization step in separated I/Q components. In this letter, we provide an efficient solution for the 2D-NUCs based on Voronoi regions. Both complexity implications and SNR performance are also analyzed.