7th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Mapping QR Decomposition Algorithm for MIMO Detection

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2012.6417498,
        author={Xining Xie and Xinglin Wang and Minqiang Tan and Feng Zhang and Zhiqiang He},
        title={Mapping QR Decomposition Algorithm for  MIMO Detection},
        proceedings={7th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={multiple-input multiple-output (mimo) mapping qr decomposition(mqrd) list sphere decoding (lsd)},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2012.6417498}
    }
    
  • Xining Xie
    Xinglin Wang
    Minqiang Tan
    Feng Zhang
    Zhiqiang He
    Year: 2012
    Mapping QR Decomposition Algorithm for MIMO Detection
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2012.6417498
Xining Xie1,*, Xinglin Wang2, Minqiang Tan2, Feng Zhang2, Zhiqiang He1
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
  • 2: Nokia Siemens Networks Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
*Contact email: xining06806@yahoo.com.cn

Abstract

In this paper, a mapping QR decomposition (MQRD) algorithm for MIMO detection is proposed. This algorithm significantly reduces the overall complexity by eliminating the square root and division operations in traditional QR decomposition without any performance degradation. Its combination with list sphere decoding (LSD) is re-derived to provide accurate soft information. In addition, our derivation shows that linear interpolation-based QR decomposition is not feasible in practice as well.