Improved V-BLAST system with antenna grouping

Author

Xia, Minghua ; Zhou, Yuanping ; Wen, Wenkun ; Xie, Ning ; Liang, Huanhui

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2005

Abstract

In this paper, V-BLAST is combined with Alamouti STBC in a MIMO system to take advantages of both schemes. The transmitting antennas are divided into two groups based on the ordering information obtained from the feedback of the OSIC detector at the conventional V-BLAST receiver. The architecture of the proposed system is presented and its BER performance is evaluated in slow fading Rayleigh channels. Simulation results show that 1.5-2 dB SNR gain can be achieved in comparison with the conventional V-BLAST algorithm.

Keywords

MIMO systems; Rayleigh channels; antenna arrays; block codes; radio receivers; space-time codes; transmitting antennas; Alamouti STBC; BER performance evaluation; OSIC detector; V-BLAST receivers; antenna grouping; multiple input multiple output system; slow fading Rayleigh channels; space-time block coding; transmitting antennas; Bit error rate; Decoding; Detectors; Feedback; MIMO; Rayleigh channels; Receiving antennas; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings, 2005. APMC 2005. Asia-Pacific Conference Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9433-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2005.1606624

Filename

1606624