Soft-Output Maximum-Likelihood Detector for Quadrature Spatial Modulation
Keywords:
Multiple-input multiple-output, quadrature spatial modulation, soft-output detection, space shift keying, spatial modulationAbstract
Spatial modulation (SM) presents a pragmatic approach for transmitting information, where the modulator uses well known amplitude/phase modulation (APM) techniques such as phase shift keying (PSK) and quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM), but also employs the antenna index to convey additional information. Nevertheless, the spectral efficiency of SM can be further improved. On this note, to further enhance the spectral efficiency of SM, quadrature SM (QSM) modulation was proposed. In coded channels, therefore, typically soft-output detection coupled with soft-input channel decoding yields significant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gain. Hence, in this paper, soft-output maximum-likelihood detector (SOMLD) for QSM modulated system is proposed. Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate that there is a close agreement between the error performances of the proposed SOMLD scheme and those of its hard-decision maximum-likelihood detector counterpart in uncoded channels, while significant signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) gains are yielded in coded channels.
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