Rate Splitting for MIMO Wireless Networks: A Promising PHY-Layer Strategy for LTE Evolution

MIMO processing plays a central part towards the recent increase in spectral and energy efficiencies of wireless networks. MIMO has grown beyond the original point-to-point channel and nowadays refers to a diverse range of centralized and distributed deployments. The fundamental bottleneck towards enormous spectral and energy efficiency benefits in multiuser MIMO networks lies in a huge demand for accurate channel state information at the transmitter (CSIT). This has become increasingly difficult to satisfy due to the increasing number of antennas and access points in next generation wireless networks relying on dense heterogeneous networks and transmitters equipped with a large number of antennas. CSIT inaccuracy results in a multi-user interference problem that is the primary bottleneck of MIMO wireless networks. Looking backward, the problem has been to strive to apply techniques designed for perfect CSIT to scenarios with imperfect CSIT. In this paper, we depart from this conventional approach and introduce the readers to a promising strategy based on rate-splitting. Rate-splitting relies on the transmission of common and private messages and is shown to provide significant benefits in terms of spectral and energy efficiencies, reliability and CSI feedback overhead reduction over conventional strategies used in LTE-A and exclusively relying on private message transmissions. Open problems, impact on standard specifications and operational challenges are also discussed.Comment: accepted to IEEE Communication Magazine, special issue on LTE Evolutio

A Rate-Splitting Approach To Robust Multiuser MISO Transmission

For multiuser MISO systems with bounded uncertainties in the Channel State Information (CSI), we consider two classical robust design problems: maximizing the minimum rate subject to a transmit power constraint, and power minimization under a rate constraint. Contrary to conventional strategies, we propose a Rate-Splitting (RS) strategy where each message is divided into two parts, a common part and a private part. All common parts are packed into one super common message encoded using a shared codebook and decoded by all users, while private parts are independently encoded and retrieved by their corresponding users. We prove that RS-based designs achieve higher max-min Degrees of Freedom (DoF) compared to conventional designs (NoRS) for uncertainty regions that scale with SNR. For the special case of non-scaling uncertainty regions, RS contrasts with NoRS and achieves a non-saturating max-min rate. In the power minimization problem, RS is shown to combat the feasibility problem arising from multiuser interference in NoRS. A robust design of precoders for RS is proposed, and performance gains over NoRS are demonstrated through simulations.Comment: To appear in ICASSP 201

A Hierarchical Rate Splitting Strategy for FDD Massive MIMO under Imperfect CSIT

In a multiuser MIMO broadcast channel, the rate performance is affected by the multiuser interference when the Channel State Information at the Transmitter (CSIT) is imperfect. To tackle the interference problem, a Rate-Splitting (RS) approach has been proposed recently, which splits one user's message into a common and a private part, and superimposes the common message on top of the private messages. The common message is drawn from a public codebook and should be decoded by all users. In this paper, we propose a novel and general framework, denoted as Hierarchical Rate Splitting (HRS), that is particularly suited to FDD massive MIMO systems. HRS simultaneously transmits private messages intended to each user and two kinds of common messages that can be decoded by all users and by a subset of users, respectively. We analyse the asymptotic sum rate of HRS under imperfect CSIT. A closed-form power allocation is derived which provides insights into the effects of system parameters. Finally, simulation results validate the significant sum rate gain of HRS over various baselines.Comment: Accepted paper at IEEE CAMAD 201

Joint RSMA and IDMA-Based NOMA system for downlink Communication in 5G and Beyond Networks

Future communication networks may encounter various issues in order to facilitate heavy heterogeneous data traffic and large number of users, therefore more advanced multiple access (MA) schemes is required to meet the changing requirements. Recently, a promising physical-layer MA technique has been suggested for multi-antenna broadcast channels, namely Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA). This new scheme has the ability to partially decode the interference and partially treat the remaining interference as noise which makes it to cope with wide range of user deployments and network loads. On the other hand, interleave division multiple access (IDMA) has already been recognized as a potential code domain NOMA (non-orthogonal multiple access) scheme, suitable for 5G and beyond communication network. Hence, in this paper, a new approach of multiple access scheme is proposed to get the grip on new challenges in future communication (6G). The proposed framework consists the joint processing of RSMA and IDMA (code domain NOMA), in which the transmitter involves an IDMA as encoder and allows rate splitting to split the message in two parts i.e. common part and private part, before the actual transmission. The mathematical modeling of proposed system is elaborated in the paper and for simulation purpose the downlink communication scenario has been considered where users faced diverse channel conditions. The weighted sum rate (WSR) performance is evaluated for the proposed scheme which validate the quality of service (QoS) of the joint RS-IDMA system

A Public Information Precoding for MIMO Visible Light Communication System Based on Manifold Optimization

Visible light communication (VLC) is an attractive subset of optical communication that provides a high data rate in the access layer of the network. The combination of multiple inputmultiple output (MIMO) with a VLC system leads to a higher speed of data transmission named as MIMO-VLC system. In multi-user (MU) MIMO-VLC, a LED array transmits signals for users. These signals are categorized as signals of private information for each user and signals of public information for all users. The main idea of this paper is to design an omnidirectional precoding to transmit the signals of public information in the MUMIMO-VLC network. To this end, we propose to maximize the achievable rate which leads to maximizing the received mean power at the possible location of the users. Besides maximizing the achievable rate, we consider equal mean transmission power constraint in all LEDs to achieve higher power efficiency of the power amplifiers used in the LED array. Based on this we formulate an optimization problem in which the constraint is in the form of a manifold and utilize a gradient method projected on the manifold to solve the problem. Simulation results indicate that the proposed omnidirectional precoding can achieve superior received mean power and bit error rate with respect to the classical form without precoding utilization.Comment: This paper has been submitted to an IEEE Journa