A Novel Nonlinear Precoding Detection Algorithm for VBLAST in MIMO-MC-CDMA Downlink System

Considering the error propagation effect and high complexity of the Vertical Bell Labs Layered Space Time (V-BLAST), a novel nonlinear ZF-THP algorithm for VBLAST in MIMO-MC-CDMA downlink system is proposed in this paper. QR decomposition is used for precoding matrix, the nonlinear Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding (THP) is used between the sub-carrier channels of MC-CDMA to eliminate interference from other signals at the transmitter, and can obtain frequency diversity gain and eliminate effectively the error propagation effect. At the receiver, zero forcing criterion is used, and the complexity of the receiver can be reduced. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm is better than the traditional zero forcing algorithm and the linear precoding algorithm in the system BER.