Computer Science – Information Theory
Scientific paper
2009-10-08
Computer Science
Information Theory
To appear in Globecom 2009
Scientific paper
In this paper we study a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Gibbs sampler for solving the integer least-squares problem. In digital communication the problem is equivalent to performing Maximum Likelihood (ML) detection in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems. While the use of MCMC methods for such problems has already been proposed, our method is novel in that we optimize the "temperature" parameter so that in steady state, i.e. after the Markov chain has mixed, there is only polynomially (rather than exponentially) small probability of encountering the optimal solution. More precisely, we obtain the largest value of the temperature parameter for this to occur, since the higher the temperature, the faster the mixing. This is in contrast to simulated annealing techniques where, rather than being held fixed, the temperature parameter is tended to zero. Simulations suggest that the resulting Gibbs sampler provides a computationally efficient way of achieving approximative ML detection in MIMO systems having a huge number of transmit and receive dimensions. In fact, they further suggest that the Markov chain is rapidly mixing. Thus, it has been observed that even in cases were ML detection using, e.g. sphere decoding becomes infeasible, the Gibbs sampler can still offer a near-optimal solution using much less computations.
Dimakis Alexandros G.
Hansen Morten
Hassibi Babak
Xu Weiyu
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