Uplink Multi-user MIMO Detection via Parallel Access

In this paper, we develop simultaneous detection techniques of signals from multiple users for uplink multi-user MIMO (UL MU-MIMO) systems. Conventional detectors do not take the detection delay into account. Two parallelizing access methods are proposed for UL MU-MIMO systems. The multiple uplink users can be detected in parallel after the parallelizing process. Moreover, the multiple uplink users can be scheduled on the same radio frequency resource as if all the other users did not exist. Therefore, the proposed detection methods can scale up with the system dimensions by keeping the bit error rate (BER) and the detection delay at an acceptable level. Simulation results show that the proposed detection methods via parallel access achieve considerable BER gains with much less detection delay as compared to their conventional counterparts.