A VLSI Decoder for the Golden code

Author

Cerato, Barbara ; Masera, Guido ; Viterbo, Emanuele

Author_Institution

Politecnico di Torino, Torino

fYear

2006

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

549

Lastpage

552

Abstract

The proposed golden code is an optimal space-time block for 2 times 2 multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system, to be used in wireless transmission to achieve high reliability and throughput. The aim of this work is the design of a VLSI decoder for a MIMO system coded with the golden code. This architecture is based on the sphere decoding algorithm that allows maximum likelihood decoding performance, with polynomial search complexity. The proposed architecture exhibits an inherent flexibility with respect to different modulation schemes (4, 16, 64-QAM), which makes it particularly suitable for adaptive modulation schemes.

Keywords

MIMO communication; VLSI; adaptive modulation; maximum likelihood decoding; space-time codes; MIMO system; VLSI decoder; adaptive modulation; golden code; maximum likelihood decoding; optimal space-time block codes; polynomial search complexity; sphere decoding algorithm; wireless transmission; Detectors; Fading; MIMO; Maximum likelihood decoding; Maximum likelihood detection; Receiving antennas; Throughput; Transmitting antennas; Very large scale integration; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2006. ICECS '06. 13th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nice

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0395-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0395-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2006.379847

Filename

4263425