A Virtual Successive Detection for Cooperative MU-MIMO Systems with Reduced CSI

In this paper, we propose a receiver using the concept of a "virtual channel" and Turbo codes for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems with cooperating transmitters. In order to reduce feedback information from receivers, a precoding method with reduced channel state information (CSI) is needed. Although signals interfere with each other in such a system, the proposed receiver enables high-speed transmission by detecting signals iteratively. In the proposed iterative scheme, soft information is exchanged between virtual channel detectors and Turbo decoders to improve the bit error rate (BER) performance. We evaluate the performance of the proposed receiver in systems with two transmitters, each equipped with four antennas, and two receivers, each equipped with two antennas. The results show that the proposed receiver can improve the system performance owing to the iteration scheme.