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Analogue MIMO Detection

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2006, Article number: 041898 (2006) Cite this article

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In this contribution we propose an analogue receiver that can perform turbo detection in MIMO systems. We present the case for a receiver that is built from nonlinear analogue devices, which perform detection in a "free-flow" network (no notion of iterations). This contribution can be viewed as an extension of analogue turbo decoder concepts to include MIMO detection. These first analogue implementations report reductions of few orders of magnitude in the number of required transistors and in consumed energy, and the same order of improvement in processing speed. It is anticipated that such analogue MIMO decoder could bring about the same advantages, when compared to traditional digital implementations.

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  1. Centre for Communications Research, University of Bristol, Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UB, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Piechocki, Jose Soler-Garrido & Joe McGeehan

  2. Telecommunications Research Laboratory, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, 32 Queen Square, Bristol, BS1 4ND, United Kingdom

    Darren McNamara & Joe McGeehan

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Piechocki, R.J., Soler-Garrido, J., McNamara, D. et al. Analogue MIMO Detection. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2006, 041898 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1155/ASP/2006/41898

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