VLSI Design of a Nonparametric Equalizer for Massive MU-MIMO
arXiv:1711.10446
Abstract
Linear minimum mean-square error (L-MMSE) equalization is among the most popular methods for data detection in massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) wireless systems. While L-MMSE equalization enables near-optimal spectral efficiency, accurate knowledge of the signal and noise powers is necessary. Furthermore, corresponding VLSI designs must solve linear systems of equations, which requires high arithmetic precision, exhibits stringent data dependencies, and results in high circuit complexity. This paper proposes the first VLSI design of the NOnParametric Equalizer (NOPE), which avoids knowledge of the transmit signal and noise powers, provably delivers the performance of L-MMSE equalization for massive MU-MIMO systems, and is resilient to numerous system and hardware impairments due to its parameter-free nature. Moreover, NOPE avoids computation of a matrix inverse and only requires hardware-friendly matrix-vector multiplications. To showcase the practical advantages of NOPE, we propose a parallel VLSI architecture and provide synthesis results in 28nm CMOS. We demonstrate that NOPE performs on par with existing data detectors for massive MU-MIMO that require accurate knowledge of the signal and noise powers.
arXiv commentPresented at the 2017 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers; 5 pages
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