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Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 938490, 9 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/938490
Research Article
A Power-Efficient Soft-Output Detector for Spatial-Multiplexing MIMO Communications
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
Received 15 June 2011; Revised 14 September 2011; Accepted 17 November 2011
Academic Editor: Zhiyuan Yan
Copyright © 2012 Hsiao-Chi Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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