Allocation of Computational Resources for Soft MIMO Detection

We consider soft MIMO detection for the case of block fading. That is, the transmitted codeword spans over several independent channel realizations and several instances of the detection problem must be solved for each such realization. We develop methods that adaptively allocate computational resources to the detection problems of each channel realization, under a total per-codeword complexity constraint. Our main results are a formulation of the problem as a mathematical optimization problem with a well-defined objective function and constraints, and algorithms that solve this optimization problem efficiently computationally.©2011 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. Mirsad Čirkić, Daniel Persson and Erik G. Larsson, Allocation of Computational Resources for Soft MIMO Detection, 2011, accepted IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processin