21 research outputs found
Energy Efficient Power Allocation for Distributed Antenna System over Shadowed Nakagami Fading Channel
In this paper, the energy efficiency (EE) of downlink distributed antenna system (DAS) with multiple receive antennas is investigated over composite fading channel that takes the path loss, shadow fading and Nakagami-m fading into account. Our aim is to maximize EE which is defined as the ratio of the transmission rate to the total consumed power under the constraints of maximum transmit power of each remote antenna. According to the definition of EE and using the upper bound of average EE, the optimized objective function is provided. Based on this, utilizing Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and mathematical derivation, a suboptimal energy efficient power allocation (PA) scheme is developed, and closed-form PA coefficients are obtained. The developed scheme has the EE performance close to the existing optimal scheme. Moreover, it has relatively lower complexity than the existing scheme because only the statistic channel information and less iteration are required. Besides, it includes the scheme in composite Rayleigh channel as a special case. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the developed scheme
Communications using ubiquitous antennas: free-space propagation
Communication Theory SymposiumThe inefficiency of the cellular-network architecture has prevented the promising theoretic gains of communication technologies such as network MIMO, massive MIMO and distributed antennas from fully materializing in practice. The revolutionary cell-less cloud radio access networks (C-RANs) are under active development to overcome the drawbacks of cellular networks. In C-RANs, centralized cloud signal processing and minimum onsite hardware make it possible to deploy ubiquitous distributed antennas and coordinate them to form a gigantic array, called the ubiquitous array (UA). This paper focuses on designing techniques for UA communications and characterizing their performance. To this end, the UA is modeled as a continuous circular array enclosing target mobiles and free-space propagation is assumed, which allows the use of mathematical tools including Fourier series and Bessel functions in the analysis. First, exploiting the UA's large circular structure, a novel scheme for multiuser channel estimation is proposed to support noiseless channel estimation using only single pilot symbols. Channel estimation errors due to interference are proved to be Bessel functions of inter-user distances normalized by the wavelength. Besides increasing the distances, it is shown that the errors can be also suppressed by using pilot sequences and eliminated if the sequence length is longer than the number of mobiles. Next, for data communication, we first consider channel conjugate transmission that compensates the phase shift in propagation and thereby allows receive coherent combining. The multiuser interference powers are derived as Bessel functions of normalized inter-user distances. Last, we propose the design of multiuser precoders in the form of Fourier series whose coefficients excite different phase modes of the UA. Under the zero-forcing constraints, the precoder coefficients are proved to lie in the null space of a derived matrix with elements being Bessel functions of n- rmalized inter-user distances.published_or_final_versio
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Energy Efficiency in Wireless Communication
The adoption of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) for downlink
multi-user communication from a multi-antenna base station is investigated in
this paper. We develop energy-efficient designs for both the transmit power
allocation and the phase shifts of the surface reflecting elements, subject to
individual link budget guarantees for the mobile users. This leads to
non-convex design optimization problems for which to tackle we propose two
computationally affordable approaches, capitalizing on alternating
maximization, gradient descent search, and sequential fractional programming.
Specifically, one algorithm employs gradient descent for obtaining the RIS
phase coefficients, and fractional programming for optimal transmit power
allocation. Instead, the second algorithm employs sequential fractional
programming for the optimization of the RIS phase shifts. In addition, a
realistic power consumption model for RIS-based systems is presented, and the
performance of the proposed methods is analyzed in a realistic outdoor
environment. In particular, our results show that the proposed RIS-based
resource allocation methods are able to provide up to higher energy
efficiency, in comparison with the use of regular multi-antenna
amplify-and-forward relaying.Comment: Accepted by IEEE TWC; additional materials on the topic are included
in the 2018 conference publications at ICASSP
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8461496) and GLOBECOM 2018
(arXiv:1809.05397