Performance evaluation of multiuser MIMO detection techniques

This paper we evaluates the performance of multiuser multiple input and multiple outputs (MU-MIMO) detection schemes. MIMO transmissions schemes include transmit diversity and spatial multiplexing and MIMO detection schemes such as zero forcing and soft spheres decoding (SSD). The performance metrics considered are throughput and bit error rate (BER) and these are used to evaluate the performance of LTE in flat fading and International Telecommunications Union B (ITU-B) Pedestrian channel with zero forcing and soft sphere decoding for Single Input Single Output (SISO), transmit diversity and spatial multiplexing. The simulations show that the performance of MIMO is better than SISO in both channel models particularly when SSD is employed. When high order modulation is utilized, performance in the flat-fading channel model is better than ITU pedestrian B channel at low SNR regions.