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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

P. Fertl, J. Jaldén, G. Matz:
"Capacity-Based Performance Comparison of MIMO-BICM Demodulators";
Poster: IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC) 2008, Recife, Brasilien; 07-06-2008 - 07-09-2008; in: "Proc. of IEEE SPAWC 2008", (2008), 166 - 170.



English abstract:
This paper provides a performance comparison of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) demodulators for bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) systems with non-iterative demodulation and decoding. We propose to use the capacity of an equivalent "modulation"
channel as a performance measure that has the advantage of not depending on the outer error correcting code. Based on this approach, we conclude that a universal ranking of MIMO (soft and hard) demodulation algorithms is not possible. This result is confirmed
via bit error rate simulations for a practical system involving low-density parity-check codes. Our approach also allows to derive practical guidelines for MIMO-BICM system design.

Keywords:
MIMO, BICM, soft demodulation, log-likelihood ratio, LDPC, capacity


Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_165728.pdf



Related Projects:
Project Head Gerald Matz:
Multiple Access Space-Time Coding Testbed


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