Design Guidelines for Spatial Modulation

Ping Yang, Marco Di Renzo, Yue Xiao, Shaoqian Li, Lajos Hanzo
2015 IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials  
A new class of low-complexity, yet energy-efficient 4 Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) transmission tech-5 niques, namely, the family of Spatial Modulation (SM) aided 6 MIMOs (SM-MIMO), has emerged. These systems are capable of 7 exploiting the spatial dimensions (i.e., the antenna indices) as an 8 additional dimension invoked for transmitting information, apart 9 from the traditional Amplitude and Phase Modulation (APM). SM 10 is capable of efficiently operating in diverse MIMO
more » ... ons 11 in the context of future communication systems. It constitutes a 12 promising transmission candidate for large-scale MIMO design 13 and for the indoor optical wireless communication while relying 14 on a single-Radio Frequency (RF) chain. Moreover, SM may be 15 also viewed as an entirely new hybrid modulation scheme, which is 16 still in its infancy. This paper aims for providing a general survey 17 of the SM design framework as well as of its intrinsic limits. In 18 particular, we focus our attention on the associated transceiver 19 design, on spatial constellation optimization, on link adaptation 20 techniques, on distributed/cooperative protocol design issues, and 21 on their meritorious variants. 22 Index Terms-Cooperative communications, large-scale 23 MIMO, link adaptation, space-time coding, spatial modulation. 24 I E E E P r o o f
doi:10.1109/comst.2014.2327066 fatcat:xmlb5xvnbbdpvl24wnjkovmpwq