On the complexity distribution of sphere decoding

Authors

Dominik Seethaler, Joakim Jaldén, Christoph Studer, and Helmut Bölcskei

Reference

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 5754-5768, Sept. 2011.

DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2011.2162177

Abstract

We analyze the (computational) complexity distribution of sphere decoding (SD) for random infinite lattices. In particular, we show that under fairly general assumptions on the statistics of the lattice basis matrix, the tail behavior of the SD complexity distribution is fully determined by the inverse volume of the fundamental regions of the underlying lattice. Particularizing this result to NxM, N>=M, i.i.d. circularly symmetric complex Gaussian lattice basis matrices, we find that the corresponding complexity distribution is of Pareto-type with tail exponent given by N-M+1. A more refined analysis reveals that the corresponding average complexity of SD is infinite for N = M and finite for N > M. Finally, for i.i.d. circularly symmetric complex Gaussian lattice basis matrices, we analyze SD preprocessing techniques based on lattice-reduction (such as the LLL algorithm or layer-sorting according to the V-BLAST algorithm) and regularization. In particular, we show that lattice reduction does not improve the tail exponent of the complexity distribution while regularization results in a SD complexity distribution with tails that decrease faster than polynomial.

Keywords

Closest lattice point problem, complexity distribution, MIMO wireless, random lattices, sphere decoding

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