Research Article

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

Table 5

values achieving a BER level of in LTE channel models for different detectors and channel decoders (turbo, LDPC) in spatial multiplexing system with 16-QAM , and 64-QAM .

Turbo code LDPC code
16-QAM 64-QAM 16-QAM 64-QAM

EPA STS-SD 6.3 dB 14.0 dB 6.2 dB 13.8 dB
LC--Best 6.5 dB () 13.9 dB () 6.4 dB () 13.9 dB ()
MMSE-IC 7.4 dB () >20 dB (>−6) 8.0 dB () >20 dB (>−6)

EVA STS-SD 5.2 dB 14.3 dB 5.3 dB 13.4 dB
LC--Best 5.4 dB () 14.4 dB () 5.6 dB () 13.7 dB ()
MMSE-IC 5.8 dB () 19.0 dB () 6.0 dB () 18.5 dB ()

ETU STS-SD 4.4 dB 13.0 dB 4.9 dB 12.4 dB
LC--Best 4.6 dB () 13.0 dB () 4.9 dB () 12.4 dB ()
MMSE-IC 4.9 dB () 17.5 dB () 5.1 dB () 16 dB ()

The number in the parenthesis corresponds to the performance loss in dB compared to STS-SD.