Iterative Detection and Decoding with an Improved V-BLAST for MIMO-OFDM systems

Abstract

This paper proposes an improved vertical Bell Labs Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) with iterative detection and decoding (IDD) scheme for coded layered space-time architectures in MIMO-OFDM systems. For the iterative process, a low-complexity demapper is developed by making use of both nonlinear interference cancellation and linear filtering. Also a simple cancellation method based on hard decision is presented to reduce the overall complexity. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed V-BLAST with IDD scheme offers the performance close to the optimal turbo-MIMO approach, while providing tremendous savings in computational complexity.