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MIMOPack: a high-performance computing library for MIMO communication systems

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This paper presents MIMOPack, a set of optimized functions to perform some of the most complex stages in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems such as channel coding, preprocessing, precoding and detection. These functions are optimized to be run in a wide range of architectures increasing the portability of scientific codes between different computing environments. MIMOPack aims to become a useful library for the research community facilitating to the programmer the development of adaptable parallel applications and also to speed up simulation platforms used to assess different technologies proposed by several companies involved in standarization processes.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by SP20120646 project of Universitat Politècnica de València, by ISIC/2012/006 and PROMETEO FASE II 2014/003 projects of Generalitat Valenciana; and has been supported by European Union ERDF and Spanish Government through TEC2012-38142-C04-01.

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Computation, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Carla Ramiro & Antonio M. Vidal

  2. Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Alberto Gonzalez

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Ramiro, C., Vidal, A.M. & Gonzalez, A. MIMOPack: a high-performance computing library for MIMO communication systems. J Supercomput 71, 751–760 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-014-1328-1

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