On MIMO with successive interference cancellation applied to UTRA LTE

The long term evolution of UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) Terrestrial Radio Access, abbreviated as UTRA LTE, makes use of OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) combined with MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output), termed MIMO-OFDM. The potential maximization of transmitted data rates has been considered a most beneficial feature of MIMO schemes. This maximization shall be strived for by spatial multiplexing. In particular, high data rates in the downlink have been considered desirable. Also, in view of an efficient implementation, the downlink requires a thorough assessment. Therefore, the authors will discuss the deployment of spatial multiplexing in the UTRA LTE downlink and will show that the performance of successive interference cancellation (SIC) based data detection techniques for MIMO-OFDM is beneficial.