  This paper presents widely-linear multi-branch decision feedback detection
techniques for large-scale multiuser multiple-antenna systems. We consider a
scenario with impairments in the radio-frequency chain in which the in-phase
(I) and quadrature (Q) components exhibit an imbalance, which degrades the
receiver performance and originates non-circular signals. A widely-linear
multi-branch decision feedback receiver is developed to mitigate both the
multiuser interference and the I/Q imbalance effects. An iterative detection
and decoding scheme with the proposed receiver and convolutional codes is also
devised. Simulation results show that the proposed techniques outperform
existing algorithms.
