Infinity-norm sphere-decoding

Authors

Dominik Seethaler and Helmut Bölcskei

Reference

Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 2002-2006, July 2008.

DOI: 10.1109/ISIT.2008.4595340

Abstract

The most promising approaches for efficient detection in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems are based on sphere-decoding (SD). The conventional (and optimum) norm that is used to conduct the tree traversal step in SD is the l-two norm. It was, however, recently shown that using the l-infinity norm instead significantly reduces the VLSI implementation complexity of SD at only a marginal performance loss. These savings are due to a reduction in the length of the critical path and the silicon area of the circuit, but also, as observed previously through simulation results, a consequence of a reduction in the computational (algorithmic) complexity. The aim of this paper is an analytical performance and computational complexity analysis of l-infinity norm SD. For i.i.d. Rayleigh fading MIMO channels, we show that l-infinity norm SD achieves full diversity order with an asymptotic SNR gap, compared to l-two norm SD, that increases at most linearly in the number of receive antennas. Moreover, we provide a closed-form expression for the computational complexity of l-infinity norm SD.

Keywords

MIMO wireless, data detection, sphere-decoding, maximum-likelihood, infinity-norm, hardware complexity, algorithmic complexity

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