• DocumentCode
    1679056
  • Title

    Robust semi-definite relaxation MIMO detection in a non-gaussian channel

  • Author

    Vovnoboy, Jakob ; Wiesel, Ami ; Wing-Kin Ma

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    5494
  • Lastpage
    5498
  • Abstract
    Semi-definite relaxation (SDR) is a popular technique for Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) detection. For Binary Phase-Shift Keying (BPSK) and Quadratic Phase-Shift Keying (QPSK), it has been found that SDR can provide a near-optimal Bit Error rate (BER) performance in a Gaussian channel. However if the noise in the channel deviates from the Gaussian model, as it does in many real wireless channels, BER performance drops considerably. In this paper we show that SDR can be applied for detection in a non-Gaussian channel using Huber´s M-estimation method for robust regression.
  • Keywords
    Gaussian channels; MIMO communication; error statistics; phase shift keying; BPSK; Huber´s M-estimation method; QPSK; binary phase-shift keying; bit error rate; multi-input multi-output detection; non-Gaussian channel; non-gaussian channel; quadratic phase-shift keying; robust semi-definite relaxation MIMO detection; Bit error rate; Detectors; MIMO; Noise; Robustness; Standards; Vectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC
  • ISSN
    1520-6149
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6638714
  • Filename
    6638714