HTRCI with channel ranking based joint signal detection for MQRD-PCM/MIMO-OFDM

MIMO-OFDM is considered a key technology in emerging high-data rate systems. In MIMO-OFDM systems, channel estimation and signal detection are important to distinguish transmit signals from multiple transmit antennas. Previously, we have proposed a parallel detection algorithm using multiple QR decompositions with permuted channel matrix (MQRDPCM) for MIMO-OFDM to reduce the system complexity. This method achieves a good BER performance with low system complexity. However, since MQRD-PCM is a kind of parallel detection method, the wrong detection probability is increased due to the bad channel SINR of the transmitted signals. As a result, the average BER performance is influenced by the wrong detection probability of the bad channel SINR. To overcome the above-mentioned problems, in this paper, we propose a high time resolution carrier interferometry (HTRCI) with channel ranking based joint signal detection for MQRD-PCM/MIMO-OFDM.