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    Fast-decodable MIMO HARQ systems
    (IEEE, 2015-05) Hosseini, S. S.; Abouei, J.; Uysal, Murat; Electrical & Electronics Engineering; UYSAL, Murat
    This paper presents a comprehensive study on the problem of decoding complexity in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) system based on Space-Time Block Codes (STBCs). We show that there exist two classes of fast-decodable MIMO HARQ systems: independent and dependent STBC structures. For the independent class, two types of protocols namely, fixed and adaptive threshold-based are presented and their effectiveness in both computational complexity reduction and spectral efficiency preservation are discussed. For the dependent class, a fast Sphere Decoder (SD) algorithm with a low computational complexity is proposed for decoding process of HARQ rounds. Two new concepts are introduced to leverage the fast-decodable notion in MIMO HARQ systems. Simulation results show that the proposed fast-decodable MIMO HARQ protocols in both classes provide a significant reduction in the decoding complexity as compared with the original MIMO HARQ method.