On the robustness of lattice-reduction aided detectors in correlated MIMO systems

Recently the use of lattice-reduction for signal detection in multiple antenna systems has been proposed. In combination with simple successive interference cancellation this scheme achieves near maximum-likelihood performance. To this end, the given MIMO channel is transformed into an almost orthogonal matrix leading to less noise enhancement within the detection. In this paper, we investigate the performance of common and lattice-reduction-aided detection schemes for correlated fading channels. We show, that the new scheme achieves significant gain in comparison to common algorithms. Thus, the new algorithm clearly outperforms existing methods with comparable complexity and is also more robust with respect to spatial correlation.