Diversity embedded rate configurable GSM and a low complexity detection method

This paper presents an energy efficient transmission method that is suitable for emerging large scale MIMO scenario, by combining space time coding and spatial multiplexing with GSM. The proposed Diversity Embedded SM (DESM) provides required Quality of Service (QoS) for a high priority data and at the same time maintains a fair transmission rate by spatial multiplexing a low priority data. Only limited feedback is required and the system can be configured for different diversity/non-diversity stream rates, as per the required QoS. Utilizing some peculiarities of the channel matrix of the system, a QR decomposition based detection method that requires only four receiving antennas is shown to have good performance. The computational complexity of detection is less compared to the existing GSM detection schemes, for reasonable number of transmit and active antennas. The effect of incorporating diversity on the rate of the system is also analyzed.