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The most promising approaches for efficient detection in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems are based on sphere-decoding (SD). The conventional (and optimum) norm that is used to conduct the tree traversal step in SD is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-18 Dominik Seethaler , Helmut Bölcskei

Low-complexity multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) detection remains a key challenge in modern wireless systems, particularly for 5G reduced capability (RedCap) and internet-of-things (IoT) devices. In this context, the growing interest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Benedikt Fesl , Fatih Capar

The soft-output successive cancellation list (SO-SCL) decoder provides a methodology for estimating the a-posteriori probability log-likelihood ratios by only leveraging the conventional SCL decoder of polar codes. However, the sequential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Li Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Zhen Gao , Yin Xu , Xiaohu You , Xiqi Gao , Wenjun Zhang

Low-resolution precoding techniques have gained considerable attention in the wireless communications area recently. Vital but hardly discussed in literature, discrete precoding in conjunction with channel coding is the subject of this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Erico S. P. Lopes , Lukas T. N. Landau

In this paper we present a novel method for decoding multiple input - multiple output (MIMO) transmission, which combines sphere decoding (SD) and zero forcing (ZF) techniques to provide near optimal low complexity and high performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-03-03 Vadim Neder , Doron Ezri , Motti Haridim

We establish that it is possible to extract accurate blockwise and bitwise soft output from Guessing Codeword Decoding with minimal additional computational complexity by considering it as a variant of Guessing Random Additive Noise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Ken R. Duffy , Peihong Yuan , Joseph Griffin , Muriel Medard

Sphere decoding (SD) is a low complexity maximum likelihood (ML) detection algorithm, which has been adapted for different linear channels in digital communications. The complexity of the SD has been shown to be exponential in some cases,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Luay Azzam , Ender Ayanoglu

We introduce an algorithm for approximating the codebook probability that is compatible with all successive cancellation (SC)-based decoding algorithms, including SC list (SCL) decoding. This approximation is based on an auxiliary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Médard

Spatial modulation (SM) is a promising multiple-input multiple-output system used to increase spectral efficiency. The maximum likelihood (ML) decoder jointly detects the transmitted SM symbol, which is of high complexity. In this paper, a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Salama Ikki

We present a low-complexity and low-latency decoding algorithm for a class of Reed-Muller (RM) subcodes that are defined based on the product of smaller RM codes. More specifically, the input sequence is shaped as a multi-dimensional array,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Mohammad Vahid Jamali , Mohammad Fereydounian , Hessam Mahdavifar , Hamed Hassani

In this paper two complexity efficient soft sphere-decoder modifications are proposed for computing the max-log LLR values in iterative MIMO systems, which avoid the costly, typically needed, full enumeration and sorting (FES) procedure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Konstantinos Nikitopoulos , Dan Zhang , I-Wei Lai , Gerd Ascheid

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) promises improved spectral efficiency, coverage, and range, compared to conventional (small-scale) MIMO wireless systems. Unfortunately, these benefits come at the cost of significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bei Yin , Michael Wu , Joseph R. Cavallaro , Christoph Studer

Targeting always the best achievable bit error rate (BER) performance in iterative receivers operating over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels may result in significant waste of resources, especially when the achievable BER is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Konstantinos Nikitopoulos , Gerd Ascheid

Classical ML decoders of MIMO systems like the sphere decoder, the Schnorr-Euchner algorithm, the Fano and the stack decoders suffer of high complexity for high number of antennas and large constellation sizes. We propose in this paper a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-11-07 Rym Ouertani , Ghaya Rekaya Ben-Othman , Abdellatif Salah

In this paper, the spectral efficiency of permutation modulation-based multiple input multiple output (MIMO) visible light communication is improved using systematically designed, multiweight codeword matrices. Soft-decision, low-complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Oluwafemi Kolade , Ling Cheng

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems have been widely acclaimed in order to provide high data rates. Recently Lattice Reduction (LR) aided detectors have been proposed to achieve near Maximum Likelihood (ML) performance with low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Mehnaz Rahman , Gwan S. Choi

We introduce low complexity machine learning based approach for mitigating nonlinear impairments in optical fiber communications systems. The immense intricacy of the problem calls for the development of "smart" methodology, simplifying the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-03-08 Mariia Sorokina , Stylianos Sygletos , Sergei Turitsyn

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is one of the most promising methods among all the non-orthogonal multiple access techniques in the future 5G communication. Compared with some other non-orthogonal multiple access techniques such as low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Fan Wei , Wen Chen

The booming of Internet-of-Things (IoT) is expected to provide more intelligent and reliable communication services for higher network coverage, massive connectivity, and low-cost solutions for 6G services. However, frequent charging and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ticao Zhang , Dennis Hui , Mehrnaz Afshang , Mohammad Mozaffari

In this paper, we present a successive-cancellation-soft-output (SCSO) detector for an uplink multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) system with one-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). The proposed detector produces soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Yun-Seong Cho , Seonho Kim , Song-Nam Hong