About the asymptotic performance of MMSE MIMO DFE for filter-bank based multicarrier transmission

Abstract

We investigate the asymptotic performance of a multi-input multi-output decision-feedback (DF) equalizer used to detect a multicarrier (MC) signal based on a filter-bank and transmitted over a linear dispersive channel. We derive the optimum DF structure for a minimum-mean square-error criterion. We basically show that with infinite length forward and feedback filters and at high signal-to-noise ratio, the geometrical mean of prediction errors does not depend on the paraunitary filter-bank used in the transmitter. Hence, it appears that uncoded filter-bank based MC transmission and single carrier transmission, both used over the same channel and with optimum DF, lead to the same achievable bit rate.