DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERING INDIAN INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI
October 2015

ANALYTICAL PERFORMANCE OF ZERO-FORCING

RECEIVERS IN CORRELATED RAYLEIGH FADING
ENVIRONMENTS
Preliminary Project Report
By
Mukesh Chaudhary 120102038
Gopi Sai Teja

120102024

1. Introduction

Correlation between the antennas significantly increases the symbol

error rate of MIMO receivers. In order to improve the performance we
need to estimate the correlation at the transmitter as well as receiver
and model the channel properly in the analysis.
Though ML gives better performance than Zero Forcing Equalizer in
SISO case but as the number of receiver and transmitter antennas
increases, complexity of decoding increases exponentially.

2.Signal and Channel Model

NT and NR are the number of transmitting and receiving antennas
respectively. Channel is a flat fading Rayleigh channel modelled by
channel matrix H and S is the transmitted signal and n is the
additive complex white Gaussian noise.
Y=HS+n
Y is the received signal at the receiver antennas.

3.Correlated MIMO Channel Model

Any correlated MIMO channel can be represented by channel matrix
H= A H H W B

Where Hw is NrX NT matrix of complex iid Gaussian channel

matrix and
AAH =RRX
BBH=RTX
where RRX and RTX are correlation matrices at the receiver and
transmitter respectively.

Using the properties of kronecker operators and results on

complex matrix variate normal distribution, statistics of H are
given by

H NNR,NT

( 0, RRX R TX )

4. Zero Forcing Equalizer

Zero forcing matrix filter is given the pseudo-inverse
1

H
H
G= ( H H ) H

With GH=I.We can calculate the signal to noise ratio on

subchannel 1 can be expressed as
Type equation here .