1,219 research outputs found
Coordinate Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding Design for Overloaded Multi-user MIMO Systems
Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) is a nonlinear processing technique
employed at the transmit side to implement the concept of dirty paper coding
(DPC). The perform of THP, however, is restricted by the dimensionality
constraint that the number of transmit antennas has to be greater or equal to
the total number of receive antennas. In this paper, we propose an iterative
coordinate THP algorithm for the scenarios in which the total number of receive
antennas is larger than the number of transmit antennas. The proposed algorithm
is implemented on two types of THP structures, the decentralized THP (dTHP)
with diagonal weighted filters at the receivers of the users, and the
centralized THP (cTHP) with diagonal weighted filter at the transmitter.
Simulation results show that a much better bit error rate (BER) and sum-rate
performances can be achieved by the proposed iterative coordinate THP compared
to the previous linear art.Comment: 3 figures, 6 pages, ISWCS 2014. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1401.475
Multi-User Flexible Coordinated Beamforming using Lattice Reduction for Massive MIMO Systems
The application of precoding algorithms in multi-user massive multiple-input
multiple-output (MU-Massive-MIMO) systems is restricted by the dimensionality
constraint that the number of transmit antennas has to be greater than or equal
to the total number of receive antennas. In this paper, a lattice reduction
(LR)-aided flexible coordinated beamforming (LR-FlexCoBF) algorithm is proposed
to overcome the dimensionality constraint in overloaded MU-Massive-MIMO
systems. A random user selection scheme is integrated with the proposed
LR-FlexCoBF to extend its application to MU-Massive-MIMO systems with arbitary
overloading levels. Simulation results show that significant improvements in
terms of bit error rate (BER) and sum-rate performances can be achieved by the
proposed LR-FlexCoBF precoding algorithm.Comment: 5 figures, Eusipc
A Survey on MIMO Transmission with Discrete Input Signals: Technical Challenges, Advances, and Future Trends
Multiple antennas have been exploited for spatial multiplexing and diversity
transmission in a wide range of communication applications. However, most of
the advances in the design of high speed wireless multiple-input multiple
output (MIMO) systems are based on information-theoretic principles that
demonstrate how to efficiently transmit signals conforming to Gaussian
distribution. Although the Gaussian signal is capacity-achieving, signals
conforming to discrete constellations are transmitted in practical
communication systems. As a result, this paper is motivated to provide a
comprehensive overview on MIMO transmission design with discrete input signals.
We first summarize the existing fundamental results for MIMO systems with
discrete input signals. Then, focusing on the basic point-to-point MIMO
systems, we examine transmission schemes based on three most important criteria
for communication systems: the mutual information driven designs, the mean
square error driven designs, and the diversity driven designs. Particularly, a
unified framework which designs low complexity transmission schemes applicable
to massive MIMO systems in upcoming 5G wireless networks is provided in the
first time. Moreover, adaptive transmission designs which switch among these
criteria based on the channel conditions to formulate the best transmission
strategy are discussed. Then, we provide a survey of the transmission designs
with discrete input signals for multiuser MIMO scenarios, including MIMO uplink
transmission, MIMO downlink transmission, MIMO interference channel, and MIMO
wiretap channel. Additionally, we discuss the transmission designs with
discrete input signals for other systems using MIMO technology. Finally,
technical challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are
summarized and the future trends of transmission designs with discrete input
signals are addressed.Comment: 110 pages, 512 references, submit to Proceedings of the IEE
Recent Advances in Cloud Radio Access Networks: System Architectures, Key Techniques, and Open Issues
As a promising paradigm to reduce both capital and operating expenditures,
the cloud radio access network (C-RAN) has been shown to provide high spectral
efficiency and energy efficiency. Motivated by its significant theoretical
performance gains and potential advantages, C-RANs have been advocated by both
the industry and research community. This paper comprehensively surveys the
recent advances of C-RANs, including system architectures, key techniques, and
open issues. The system architectures with different functional splits and the
corresponding characteristics are comprehensively summarized and discussed. The
state-of-the-art key techniques in C-RANs are classified as: the fronthaul
compression, large-scale collaborative processing, and channel estimation in
the physical layer; and the radio resource allocation and optimization in the
upper layer. Additionally, given the extensiveness of the research area, open
issues and challenges are presented to spur future investigations, in which the
involvement of edge cache, big data mining, social-aware device-to-device,
cognitive radio, software defined network, and physical layer security for
C-RANs are discussed, and the progress of testbed development and trial test
are introduced as well.Comment: 27 pages, 11 figure
A Survey on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for 5G Networks: Research Challenges and Future Trends
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an essential enabling technology for
the fifth generation (5G) wireless networks to meet the heterogeneous demands
on low latency, high reliability, massive connectivity, improved fairness, and
high throughput. The key idea behind NOMA is to serve multiple users in the
same resource block, such as a time slot, subcarrier, or spreading code. The
NOMA principle is a general framework, and several recently proposed 5G
multiple access schemes can be viewed as special cases. This survey provides an
overview of the latest NOMA research and innovations as well as their
applications. Thereby, the papers published in this special issue are put into
the content of the existing literature. Future research challenges regarding
NOMA in 5G and beyond are also discussed.Comment: to appear in IEEE JSAC, 201
Cellular Network Architectures for the Society in Motion
Due to rising mobility worldwide, a growing number of people utilizes
cellular network services while on the move. Persistent urbanization trends
raise the number of daily commuters, leading to a situation where
telecommunication requirements are mainly dictated by two categories of users:
1) Static users inside buildings, demanding instantaneous and virtually
bandwidth unlimited access to the Internet and Cloud services; 2) moving users
outside, expecting ubiquitous and seamless mobility even at high velocity.
While most work on future mobile communications is motivated by the first
category of users, we outline in this article a layered cellular network
architecture that has the potential to efficiently support both user groups
simultaneously. We deduce novel transceiver architectures and derive research
questions that need to be tackled to effectively maintain wireless connectivity
for the envisioned Society in Motion
Symbol-level and Multicast Precoding for Multiuser Multiantenna Downlink: A Survey, Classification and Challenges
Precoding has been conventionally considered as an effective means of
mitigating the interference and efficiently exploiting the available in the
multiantenna downlink channel, where multiple users are simultaneously served
with independent information over the same channel resources. The early works
in this area were focused on transmitting an individual information stream to
each user by constructing weighted linear combinations of symbol blocks
(codewords). However, more recent works have moved beyond this traditional view
by: i) transmitting distinct data streams to groups of users and ii) applying
precoding on a symbol-per-symbol basis. In this context, the current survey
presents a unified view and classification of precoding techniques with respect
to two main axes: i) the switching rate of the precoding weights, leading to
the classes of block- and symbol-level precoding, ii) the number of users that
each stream is addressed to, hence unicast-/multicast-/broadcast- precoding.
Furthermore, the classified techniques are compared through representative
numerical results to demonstrate their relative performance and uncover
fundamental insights. Finally, a list of open theoretical problems and
practical challenges are presented to inspire further research in this area.Comment: Submitted to IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorial
Study of Opportunistic Cooperation Techniques using Jamming and Relays for Physical-Layer Security in Buffer-aided Relay Networks
In this paper, we investigate opportunistic relay and jammer cooperation
schemes in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) buffer-aided relay networks.
The network consists of one source, an arbitrary number of relay nodes,
legitimate users and eavesdroppers, with the constraints of physical layer
security. We propose an algorithm to select a set of relay nodes to enhance the
legitimate users' transmission and another set of relay nodes to perform
jamming of the eavesdroppers. With Inter-Relay interference (IRI) taken into
account, interference cancellation can be implemented to assist the
transmission of the legitimate users. Secondly, IRI can also be used to further
increase the level of harm of the jamming signal to the eavesdroppers. By
exploiting the fact that the jamming signal can be stored at the relay nodes,
we also propose a hybrid algorithm to set a signal-to-interference and noise
ratio (SINR) threshold at the node to determine the type of signal stored at
the relay node. With this separation, the signals with high SINR are delivered
to the users as conventional relay systems and the low SINR performance signals
are stored as potential jamming signals. Simulation results show that the
proposed techniques obtain a significant improvement in secrecy rate over
previously reported algorithms.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Channel Estimation and Hybrid Precoding for Distributed Phased Arrays Based MIMO Wireless Communications
Distributed phased arrays based multiple-input multiple-output (DPA-MIMO) is
a newly introduced architecture that enables both spatial multiplexing and
beamforming while facilitating highly reconfigurable hardware implementation in
millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequency bands. With a DPA-MIMO system, we focus on
channel state information (CSI) acquisition and hybrid precoding. As benefited
from a coordinated and open-loop pilot beam pattern design, all the sub-arrays
can perform channel sounding with less training overhead compared with the
traditional orthogonal operation of each sub-array. Furthermore, two sparse
channel recovery algorithms, known as joint orthogonal matching pursuit (JOMP)
and joint sparse Bayesian learning with reweighting (JSBL-),
are proposed to exploit the hidden structured sparsity in the beam-domain
channel vector. Finally, successive interference cancellation (SIC) based
hybrid precoding through sub-array grouping is illustrated for the DPA-MIMO
system, which decomposes the joint sub-array RF beamformer design into an
interactive per-sub-array-group handle. Simulation results show that the
proposed two channel estimators fully take advantage of the partial coupling
characteristic of DPA-MIMO channels to perform channel recovery, and the
proposed hybrid precoding algorithm is suitable for such array-of-sub-arrays
architecture with satisfactory performance and low complexity.Comment: accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technolog
Coordinated transmit and receive processing with adaptive multi-stream selection
In this paper, we propose an adaptive coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme
for inter-user interference cancellation, when a base station (BS) communicates
with multiple users that each has multiple receive antennas. The conventional
coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme transmits a fixed number of data streams
for each user regardless of the instantaneous channel states, that is, all the
users, no matter they are with ill-conditioned or well-conditioned channels,
have the same number of data streams. However, in the proposed adaptive
coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme, we adaptively select the number of
streams per user to solve the inefficient problem of the conventional
coordinated Tx-Rx beamforming scheme. As a result, the BER performance is
improved. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms the
conventional co-ordinated Tx-Rx beamforming algorithm by 2.5dB at a target BER
of 10^-2Comment: International Conference on Communications, Networking, and Mobile
Computing (WiCOM'10): 5 pages, 5 figure
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