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Fundamental Limits in MIMO Broadcast Channels
This paper studies the fundamental limits of MIMO broadcast channels from a high level, determining the sum-rate capacity of the system as a function of system paramaters, such as the number of transmit antennas, the number of users, the number of receive antennas, and the total transmit power. The crucial role of channel state information at the transmitter is emphasized, as well as the emergence of opportunistic transmission schemes. The effects of channel estimation errors, training, and spatial correlation are studied, as well as issues related to fairness, delay and differentiated rate scheduling
Joint Scheduling and ARQ for MU-MIMO Downlink in the Presence of Inter-Cell Interference
User scheduling and multiuser multi-antenna (MU-MIMO) transmission are at the
core of high rate data-oriented downlink schemes of the next-generation of
cellular systems (e.g., LTE-Advanced). Scheduling selects groups of users
according to their channels vector directions and SINR levels. However, when
scheduling is applied independently in each cell, the inter-cell interference
(ICI) power at each user receiver is not known in advance since it changes at
each new scheduling slot depending on the scheduling decisions of all
interfering base stations. In order to cope with this uncertainty, we consider
the joint operation of scheduling, MU-MIMO beamforming and Automatic Repeat
reQuest (ARQ). We develop a game-theoretic framework for this problem and build
on stochastic optimization techniques in order to find optimal scheduling and
ARQ schemes. Particularizing our framework to the case of "outage service
rates", we obtain a scheme based on adaptive variable-rate coding at the
physical layer, combined with ARQ at the Logical Link Control (ARQ-LLC). Then,
we present a novel scheme based on incremental redundancy Hybrid ARQ (HARQ)
that is able to achieve a throughput performance arbitrarily close to the
"genie-aided service rates", with no need for a genie that provides
non-causally the ICI power levels. The novel HARQ scheme is both easier to
implement and superior in performance with respect to the conventional
combination of adaptive variable-rate coding and ARQ-LLC.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Communications, v2: small
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Sum Rates, Rate Allocation, and User Scheduling for Multi-User MIMO Vector Perturbation Precoding
This paper considers the multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)
broadcast channel. We consider the case where the multiple transmit antennas
are used to deliver independent data streams to multiple users via vector
perturbation. We derive expressions for the sum rate in terms of the average
energy of the precoded vector, and use this to derive a high signal-to-noise
ratio (SNR) closed-form upper bound, which we show to be tight via simulation.
We also propose a modification to vector perturbation where different rates can
be allocated to different users. We conclude that for vector perturbation
precoding most of the sum rate gains can be achieved by reducing the rate
allocation problem to the user selection problem. We then propose a
low-complexity user selection algorithm that attempts to maximize the high-SNR
sum rate upper bound. Simulations show that the algorithm outperforms other
user selection algorithms of similar complexity.Comment: 27 pages with 6 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in
IEEE Trans. Wireless Comm
Secrecy Sum-Rates for Multi-User MIMO Regularized Channel Inversion Precoding
In this paper, we propose a linear precoder for the downlink of a multi-user
MIMO system with multiple users that potentially act as eavesdroppers. The
proposed precoder is based on regularized channel inversion (RCI) with a
regularization parameter and power allocation vector chosen in such a
way that the achievable secrecy sum-rate is maximized. We consider the
worst-case scenario for the multi-user MIMO system, where the transmitter
assumes users cooperate to eavesdrop on other users. We derive the achievable
secrecy sum-rate and obtain the closed-form expression for the optimal
regularization parameter of the precoder using
large-system analysis. We show that the RCI precoder with
outperforms several other linear precoding schemes, and
it achieves a secrecy sum-rate that has same scaling factor as the sum-rate
achieved by the optimum RCI precoder without secrecy requirements. We propose a
power allocation algorithm to maximize the secrecy sum-rate for fixed .
We then extend our algorithm to maximize the secrecy sum-rate by jointly
optimizing and the power allocation vector. The jointly optimized
precoder outperforms RCI with and equal power allocation
by up to 20 percent at practical values of the signal-to-noise ratio and for 4
users and 4 transmit antennas.Comment: IEEE Transactions on Communications, accepted for publicatio
Cooperative Multi-Cell Block Diagonalization with Per-Base-Station Power Constraints
Block diagonalization (BD) is a practical linear precoding technique that
eliminates the inter-user interference in downlink multiuser multiple-input
multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In this paper, we apply BD to the downlink
transmission in a cooperative multi-cell MIMO system, where the signals from
different base stations (BSs) to all the mobile stations (MSs) are jointly
designed with the perfect knowledge of the downlink channels and transmit
messages. Specifically, we study the optimal BD precoder design to maximize the
weighted sum-rate of all the MSs subject to a set of per-BS power constraints.
This design problem is formulated in an auxiliary MIMO broadcast channel (BC)
with a set of transmit power constraints corresponding to those for individual
BSs in the multi-cell system. By applying convex optimization techniques, this
paper develops an efficient algorithm to solve this problem, and derives the
closed-form expression for the optimal BD precoding matrix. It is revealed that
the optimal BD precoding vectors for each MS in the per-BS power constraint
case are in general non-orthogonal, which differs from the conventional
orthogonal BD precoder design for the MIMO-BC under one single sum-power
constraint. Moreover, for the special case of single-antenna BSs and MSs, the
proposed solution reduces to the optimal zero-forcing beamforming (ZF-BF)
precoder design for the weighted sum-rate maximization in the multiple-input
single-output (MISO) BC with per-antenna power constraints. Suboptimal and
low-complexity BD/ZF-BF precoding schemes are also presented, and their
achievable rates are compared against those with the optimal schemes.Comment: accepted in JSAC, special issue on cooperative communications on
cellular networks, June 201
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