Towards approaching near-optimal MIMO detection performance ONAC-programmable baseband processor

Ubaid Ahmad, Min Li, Amir Amin, Meng Li, Liesbet Van Der Perre, Rudy Lauwereins, Sofie Pollin

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Abstract

Lattice Reduction aided softoutput MIMO detectors have been demonstrated to offer a promising gain. However, computing Log-Likelihood ratios (LLR) for near-optimal MIMO detection, still poses a significant challenge for practical implementations. In this work, we present counter-ML bit-flipping algorithm for LLR generation. The proposed LLR generation algorithm has been designed to take advantage of the previously reported list generation algorithm, Multi-Tree Selective Spanning (MTSS), by maximizing the reuse of computations. Afterwards, a C-programmable MIMO detector architecture providing both data level parallelism (DLP) and instruction level parallelism (ILP), is designed for implementation. The proposed solution supports multiple MIMO detection modes, with both hard and softoutput. Performance of the proposed solution can be tuned ranging from SIC to near-ML to near-MAP, by adjusting a single parameter. In case of 4 × 4 QAM-64, it achieves peak-throughputs of 2.43Gbps and 629Mbps in case of hard and softoutput MIMO detection, with only 66.37mW and 76.14mW respective power consumption.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publication2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3893-3897
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781479928927
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014 - Florence, Italy
Duration: 4 May 20149 May 2014

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2014
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFlorence
Period4/05/149/05/14

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