基于切比雪夫-迹迭代的大规模MIMO系统软输出信号检测

在多用户大规模多输入多输出(MIMO)系统信号检测算法中，最小均方误差(MMSE)算法可取得近似最优性能，但MMSE算法中高维矩阵求逆的复杂度过高，导致在实际应用中难以快速有效地实现。同时，对于高阶正交幅度调制(HQAM)，如果符号向比特的解映射采用硬判决，将会导致后续信道译码的性能明显下降。因此，该文针对采用格雷编码的HQAM的多用户大规模MIMO系统，提出一种基于切比雪夫-迹迭代(CTI)的低复杂度软输出信号检测算法。该算法不但有效地规避了信号检测所需的高维矩阵求逆，同时，利用格雷编码的调制信号的比特翻转特性和二叉树结构，给出了一种融合三叉链表搜索的比特对数似然比(LLR)简化计算方法。仿真结果表明，该文所提的软输出信号检测算法最多需要3次迭代就能收敛并可取得接近MMSE算法的性能，在复杂度和性能之间取得了很好的折中。

Soft Output Signal Detection for Massive MIMO Systems Based on Chebyshev Trace Iteration

Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) algorithm can achieve near-optimal detection performance for multi-user massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. However, the calculation of the high-dimensional matrix inversion required in MMSE algorithm causes excessively high computational complexity, which makes it difficult to implement quickly and effectively in practical applications. At the same time, for the Higher Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (HQAM), the direct use of hard decision to realize the symbol-to-bit demapper will result in an obvious performance loss. Therefore, a low-complexity soft output signal detection algorithm based on Chebyshev-Trace Iteration (CTI) is proposed for Gray-coded HQAM in this paper. The algorithm not only effectively avoids the calculation of the high dimensional matrix inversion, but also gives a simplified calculation method with the trident list searching to compute the bit Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) by using the bit flip property of Gray-coded modulation and binary tree architecture. The simulation results show that the proposed soft output detection algorithm needs at most 3 iterations to converge and achieve detection performance close to MMSE, which achieves a good tradeoff between the complexity and the detection performance.