Reduced Complexity Single-Carrier Maximum-Likelihood Detection for Decision Feedback Assisted Space-Time Equalization

A novel Decision-Feedback (DF) aided reduced complexity Maximum Likelihood (ML) Space-Time Equalizer (STE) designed for single-carrier multiple antenna assisted receivers is introduced. The proposed receiver structure is based on a recursive tree search, which is capable of achieving ML performance at a moderate computational cost and substantially outperforms the linear benchmarker based on the Minimum Mean-Squared Error (MMSE) criterion. Additionally a further complexity reduction scheme is proposed, which exploits the specific characteristics of both the wide-band channel and the proposed DF-STE