On diversity and multiplexing tradeoff of two-layer D-BLAST with group zero-forcing detection

Group zero-forcing (GZF) detection is an efficient and powerful detection tool that has flexible detection complexity and performance gain between the optimum detection and the ZF detection. In this paper, we give diversity and multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) analysis for a 2-layer D-BLAST transmission under GZF detection over Rayleigh MIMO channels. With M transmit antennas and N receive antennas, the DMT of such a system is shown as d_out (r) = (N - 1) (M - r(M+1)/2) + for 2/M+1 ≤ r ≤ 2M/M+1 and d_out (r) = (MN - M + 1) - rN(M + 1)/2 for 0 ≤ r < 2/M+1, where d_out denotes the diversity gain and r denotes the multiplexing gain.