The invention belongs to the technical field of mobile communication, and particularly relates to a 
QR decomposition detection method under a novel 
system combined with 
spatial modulation and quasi-orthogonal space time block codes. The 
QR decomposition detection method comprises the steps that first, antenna combined 
modes are selected and traversed, and an equivalent channel submatrix corresponding to an activated antenna combined index is obtained; 
QR decomposition is conducted on the equivalent channel sub matrix, so that an upper 
triangular matrix R is obtained; afterwards, the last sign is demodulated, judgment is made by using a maximum-likelihood criterion, and when other signs are detected, interference of the detected signs is sequentially subtracted. Due to the fact that each antenna combined mode corresponds to a set of solution vectors, the 
Euclidean distance between received signals is calculated respectively, the solution vector corresponding to the minimum value serves as an optimal detection sending 
signal, the corresponding sending combination is an activated sending antenna combination. Through QR 
decomposition, the searching frequency can be reduced, the detection complexity of a 
receiver is lowered, and excellent 
detection performance can be achieved under the 
low complexity condition.