Abstract

A trellis-coded multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission technique, which exploits multiple-antenna elements at both transmitter and receiver sides and employs trellis-coded modulations (TCMs), has potential to significantly increase spectral efficiency in wireless communications. At the receiver, an adaptive equalizer based on maximum-likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) deals with intersymbol interference (ISI) incurred in wideband transmissions and jointly decodes multiplexed TCM signals. Recently, a sphere-constrained maximum-likelihood detection, so-called sphere decoding, has drawn much attention for reducing the computational burden in MIMO transmission systems. This paper describes the super-trellis structured Viterbi algorithm applying per-survivor sphere decoding, and evaluates the effect of the complexity reduction in branch metric computations.

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