Frequency-Domain QR-Decomposed and Equalized MLD for Single-Carrier MIMO Systems over Multipath Fading Channels

Abstract

This letter describes a new QR-decomposition maximum likelihood detector that is combined with frequency-domain equalization for single-carrier transmission based multiple-input multiple-output systems. By utilizing the equalized substreams to adjust the frequency selectivity in corresponding substreams in subsequent stages, the packet error rate performances of the proposed detector is superior to that of the minimum mean squared error receiver by a factor of the receive antenna diversity gain.