Abstract-A block signal maximum likelihood detection (MLD) employing QR decomposition and M-algorithm (QRM-MLBD) can significantly improve the bit error rate (BER) performance of the single carrier (SC) transmissions in a frequency-selective fading channel, compared to the conventional frequency-domain equalization (FDE). In QRM-MLBD, the cyclic prefix (CP) is inserted in order to avoid inter-block interference (IBI). However, the CP insertion reduces the transmission efficiency. In this paper, we propose an overlap QRM-MLBD which requires no CP insertion. In overlap QRM-MLBD, IBI can be suppressed by overlapping consecutive observation windows and picking up only the reliable part after the block signal detection. We evaluate the average BER performance and the throughput performance by computer simulation to compare with the conventional QRM-MLBD with CP insertion.

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QR decomposition and M-algorithm based near maximum likelihood block detection (QRM-MLBD) significantly improves the single-carrier (SC) multiple-input multipleoutput (SC-MIMO) transmission performance in a frequency-selective fading channel. In the conventional QRM-MLBD, the cyclic prefix (CP) is inserted in order to avoid the inter-block interference (IBI). However, CP insertion reduces the transmission efficiency. In this paper, an iterative overlap QRM-MLBD is proposed for SC-MIMO transmission with no CP insertion. It is confirmed by computer simulation that the iterative overlap QRM-MLBD with no CP insertion provides improved throughput performance while reducing the computational complexity over the conventional QRM-MLBD with CP insertion.