Abstract

Spatial modulation (SM) is a promising multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission technology, which exploits the indices of transmit antennas to encode information into the spatial dimension and needs less radio frequency chains. To detect the transmitted information, the maximum likelihood (ML) algorithm is often adopted which has high computational complexity. Some low-complexity detection algorithms only consider hard-decision cases with no channel coding. In this paper, a low-complexity soft output detection algorithm is proposed for coded spatial modulation systems. Its computational complexity doesn't increase with the modulation order and hence much lower than the soft output ML detection algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate that the bit error rate (BER) performance is near to the ML detection with obvious complexity reduction. By sorting the detection metrics and selecting less transmit antenna indices as search candidates to compute soft bit information, further reduction of computational complexity could be obtained.

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