Reduced-complexity Transmit Antenna Selection for Spatial Modulation

In this paper, a novel transmit antenna selection (TAS) scheme is conceived for spatial modulation multiple-input multiple-output (SM-MIMO) systems, in order to reduce the search complexity. Compared to the existing TAS schemes, the proposed scheme shows a similar performance to optimal one with lower complexity, by exploring an efficient pruning algorithm for tree search based on a combined criterion. Simulation result indicates that the proposed scheme is capable of balancing the transmission performance and search complexity.