Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2008-05-05
Computer Science
Information Theory
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Nov. 2008 (paper was presented in part at IEEE ISIT 2008, Toronto, ON, C
Scientific paper
The most promising approaches for efficient detection in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems are based on sphere-decoding (SD). The conventional (and optimum) norm that is used to conduct the tree traversal step in SD is the l-2 norm. It was, however, recently observed that using the l-infinity norm instead reduces the hardware complexity of SD considerably at only a marginal performance loss. These savings result from a reduction in the length of the critical path in the circuit and the silicon area required for metric computation, but are also, as observed previously through simulation results, a consequence of a reduction in the computational (i.e., algorithmic) complexity. The aim of this paper is an analytical performance and computational complexity analysis of l-infinity norm SD. For i.i.d. Rayleigh fading MIMO channels, we show that l-infinity norm SD achieves full diversity order with an asymptotic SNR gap, compared to l-2 norm SD, that increases at most linearly in the number of receive antennas. Moreover, we provide a closed-form expression for the computational complexity of l-infinity norm SD based on which we establish that its complexity scales exponentially in the system size. Finally, we characterize the tree pruning behavior of l-infinity norm SD and show that it behaves fundamentally different from that of l-2 norm SD.
Bölcskei Helmut
Seethaler Dominik
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