Authors:
João Carlos Silva
1
;
Nuno Souto
1
;
Francisco Cercas
1
and
Rui Dinis
2
Affiliations:
1
Instituto Superior Técnico/IT, Portugal
;
2
CAPS, Portugal
Keyword(s):
MIMO-BLAST, Iterative Interference Canceller, W-CDMA.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
4G Systems
;
GPRS and UMTS
;
Performance Analysis of Wireless Networks
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
A MMSE (Minimum Mean Square Error) DS-CDMA (Direct Sequence-Code Division Multiple Access) receiver coupled with a low-complexity iterative interference suppression algorithm was devised for a MIMO/BLAST (Multiple Input, Multiple Output / Bell Laboratories Layered Space Time) system in order to improve system performance, considering frequency selective fading channels. The scheme is compared against the simple MMSE receiver, for both QPSK and 16QAM modulations, under SISO (Single Input, Single Output) and MIMO systems, the latter with 2Tx by 2Rx and 4Tx by 4Rx (MIMO order 2 and 4 respectively) antennas. To assess its performance in an existing system, the uncoded UMTS HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) standard was considered.