Reduced-complexity orthotope sphere decoding for multiple-input multiple-output antenna system

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a maximum likelihood (ML)-like performance reduced computational complexity sorted orthotope sphere decoding (OSD), and zero forced (ZF) sorted OSD algorithms for the spatial multiplexing (SM) in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. In comparison with the original OSD our technique reduces the number of partial Euclidean distance (PED) computations by up to 28%, and 25% for QPSK and 16-QAM 4×4 MIMO systems, respectively.