Research Article

Performance and Complexity Evaluation of Iterative Receiver for Coded MIMO-OFDM Systems

Table 3

Simulation parameters.

MIMO system spatial multiplexing

Modulation 16-QAM, 64-QAM with Gray mapping

Channel type Flat Rayleigh fading
EPA, EVA, and ETU

Number of subcarriers () 1024 (600 active)
Cyclic prefix (CP) Normal μs–μs
Bandwidth 10 MHz
Carrier frequency 2.4 GHz

Detector Single tree search (STS-SD)
LC--Best ( 16, 32)
I-VBLAST
MMSE-IC

Channel decoder LTE turbo code   
1/2, 3/4
Block length = 1,024 bits
LDPC code (IEEE 802.11n)
1/2, 3/4
Codeword length 1,944 bits

Interleaver Random, size = 1,024 (turbo)
Inner iteration (turbo) (LDPC)
Outer iteration