METHOD CONFIGURING A PLURALITY OF TRANSMIT ANTENNAS

1 . A computer-implemented decoding method for configuring a plurality of transmit antennas, the method comprising:

configuring the plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and

a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation,

mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas,

wherein the notion of applying sparse detection, compressed sensing algorithms to decode spatial modulation signals is proceeded.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising: a modification to the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (ISTA) via boxing, range limiting, and hard-thresholding.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising: proceeding the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm via boxing-hard (ISTA), a greedy selection of the positions of the antennas index and the symbol estimates, and their independent decoding of the corresponding antenna modulated and symbol modulated bits.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein process working parallel to the greedy detections, to ensure valid estimates of the index vectors from the given finite set of index vectors are produced as an output and to apply interference cancellation with the confirmed values,

while keeping track of which indices have been retrieved from the greedy selections, before every iteration check whether from the currently decoded indices, a final confirmation can be made;

if it cannot be made, remove the interference by the previous greedy selection and make the next iteration.

5 . A receiver of a communication system having a processor, volatile and/or non-volatile memory, at least one interface adapted to receive a signal in an communication channel, wherein the non-volatile memory stores computer program instructions which, when executed by the microprocessor, configure the receiver to perform operations comprising:

configuring the plurality of transmit antennas to each represent an in-phase spatial constellation symbol within an in-phase spatial constellation, and a quadrature spatial constellation symbol within a quadrature spatial constellation,

mapping source data to the in-phase spatial constellation symbols and the quadrature spatial constellation symbols represented by the plurality of transmit antennas,

wherein the notion of applying sparse detection, compressed sensing algorithms to decode spatial modulation signals is proceeded.

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10 . The receiver of claim 5 , further comprising: a modification to the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm (ISTA) via boxing, range limiting, and hard-thresholding.

11 . The receiver of claim 5 , further comprising: proceeding the iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm via boxing-hard (ISTA), a greedy selection of the positions of the antennas index and the symbol estimates, and their independent decoding of the corresponding antenna modulated and symbol modulated bits.

12 . The receiver of claim 5 , wherein process working parallel to the greedy detections, to ensure valid estimates of the index vectors from the given finite set of index vectors are produced as an output and to apply interference cancellation with the confirmed values,

while keeping track of which indices have been retrieved from the greedy selections, before every iteration check whether from the currently decoded indices, a final confirmation can be made;

if it cannot be made, remove the interference by the previous greedy selection and make the next iteration.