Improved sparse error recovery approach for detecting QAM signals in overloaded massive MIMO systems

With a convenient concatenation of a convex relaxation-based detector and a simple greedy algorithm, we propose an improved Post Detection Sparse error Recovery (PDSR) approach for massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (m-MIMO) systems that, in particular, transmit QAM signals. The proposed PDSR approach can perform well in situations, where the classical one, either acts poorly or completely fails. We further propose an Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM)-based solver for the convex detector, which is advan¬tageous in maintaining an affordable complexity to the overall proposed detection scheme. Numerical experiments show the efficiency of our approach, especially when applied to overloaded m-MIMO systems.