Silver Code (SilC) was originally discovered in [1–4] for 2×2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission. It has non-vanishing minimum determinant 1/7, slightly lower than Golden code, but is fast-decodable, i.e., it allows reduced-complexity maximum likelihood decoding [5–7]. In this paper, we present a multidimensional trellis-coded modulation scheme for MIMO systems [11] based on set partitioning of the Silver Code, named Silver Space-Time Trellis Coded Modulation (SST-TCM). This lattice set partitioning is designed specifically to increase the minimum determinant. The branches of the outer trellis code are labeled with these partitions. Viterbi algorithm is applied for trellis decoding, while the branch metrics are computed by using a sphere-decoding algorithm. It is shown that the proposed SST-TCM performs very closely to the Golden Space-Time Trellis Coded Modulation (GST-TCM) scheme, yet/nwith a much reduced decoding complexity thanks to its fast-decoding property.

Comunicació presentada en la 16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008), celebrada els dies 25, 26, 27, 28 i 29 d’agost de 2008 a Lausana (Suïssa), organitzada per la European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP).

This work was supported by the STREP project No. IST-026905 (MASCOT) within the FP6th of the European Commission, and, for EB, also by the Spanish Ministery of Education and Science under Project TEC2006-01428/TCM.