Block‐Mode Lattice Reduction for Low‐Complexity MIMO Detection

We propose a very‐low‐complexity lattice‐reduction (LR) algorithm for multi‐input multi‐output detection in time‐varying channels. The proposed scheme reduces the complexity by performing LR in a block‐wise manner. The proposed scheme takes advantage of the temporal correlation of the channel matrices in a block and its impact on the lattice transformation matrices during the LR process. From this, the proposed scheme can skip a number of redundant LR processes for consecutive channel matrices and performs a single LR in a block. As the Doppler frequency decreases, the complexity reduction efficiency becomes more significant.