FIXED POINT SVD COMPUTATION ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE LOSSSES IN MIMO SYSTEMS

César Benavente-Peces, Andreas Ahrens, José M. Pardo-Martín, Fco. Javier Ortega-González

2009

Abstract

This paper is devoted to analyze the error met when computing the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the gain channel matrix in a MIMO communication system and using fixed-point arithmetic for the calculations. The study is focused in the case of the SVD implementation for modulation-mode and power assignment in non-frequency selective MIMO, and M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM). It is demonstrated that not necessarily all MIMO layers must be activated. The combination of the CORDIC algorithm and look-up tables seems to be a good solution for this task since it can efficiently compute the singular value decomposition. The paper highlights the characterization of computation errors and shows the performance losses produced by the use of approximations in the eigenvalues and eigenvectors calculation, including the effects produced in the power assignment process.

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Benavente-Peces C., Ahrens A., M. Pardo-Martín J. and Javier Ortega-González F. (2009). FIXED POINT SVD COMPUTATION ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE LOSSSES IN MIMO SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-008-5, pages 91-94. DOI: 10.5220/0002188800910094


in Bibtex Style

@conference{winsys09,
author={César Benavente-Peces and Andreas Ahrens and José M. Pardo-Martín and Fco. Javier Ortega-González},
title={FIXED POINT SVD COMPUTATION ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE LOSSSES IN MIMO SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={91-94},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002188800910094},
isbn={978-989-674-008-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: WINSYS, (ICETE 2009)
TI - FIXED POINT SVD COMPUTATION ERROR CHARACTERIZATION AND PERFORMANCE LOSSSES IN MIMO SYSTEMS
SN - 978-989-674-008-5
AU - Benavente-Peces C.
AU - Ahrens A.
AU - M. Pardo-Martín J.
AU - Javier Ortega-González F.
PY - 2009
SP - 91
EP - 94
DO - 10.5220/0002188800910094