An MMSE-Nulling Partial-PIC Receiver for Multiuser Downlink MIMO MC-CDMA Systems

Jeong-Hoe KU
Kyeongyeon KIM
Seijoon SHIM
Min Goo KIM
Chungyong LEE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E88-B    No.4    pp.1725-1729
Publication Date: 2005/04/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e88-b.4.1725
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
MIMO,  MC-CDMA,  V-BLAST,  PIC,  

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Summary: 
A minimum mean square error (MMSE) nulling partial parallel interference cancellation (PPIC) receiver for downlink multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multicarrier (MC)-CDMA systems is proposed. Our analysis shows that, for multiuser MIMO MC-CDMA systems, interference due to frequency selectivity in multipath fading channel causes detrimental effects on cancelling, thus V-BLAST receiver shows severe performance degradation. The proposed receiver with multistage processing does not produce an error floor in frequency selective fading channel environments and achieves substantial performance gains. The system performance of the proposed receiver was evaluated through computer simulations. The simulation results show that, with two stage PPIC processing, the proposed receiver achieves performance gains of 2.5-4 dB at target BER of 10-3 over the linear MMSE receiver.