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AirSync: Enabling Distributed Multiuser MIMO with Full Spatial Multiplexing
The enormous success of advanced wireless devices is pushing the demand for
higher wireless data rates. Denser spectrum reuse through the deployment of
more access points per square mile has the potential to successfully meet the
increasing demand for more bandwidth. In theory, the best approach to density
increase is via distributed multiuser MIMO, where several access points are
connected to a central server and operate as a large distributed multi-antenna
access point, ensuring that all transmitted signal power serves the purpose of
data transmission, rather than creating "interference." In practice, while
enterprise networks offer a natural setup in which distributed MIMO might be
possible, there are serious implementation difficulties, the primary one being
the need to eliminate phase and timing offsets between the jointly coordinated
access points.
In this paper we propose AirSync, a novel scheme which provides not only time
but also phase synchronization, thus enabling distributed MIMO with full
spatial multiplexing gains. AirSync locks the phase of all access points using
a common reference broadcasted over the air in conjunction with a Kalman filter
which closely tracks the phase drift. We have implemented AirSync as a digital
circuit in the FPGA of the WARP radio platform. Our experimental testbed,
comprised of two access points and two clients, shows that AirSync is able to
achieve phase synchronization within a few degrees, and allows the system to
nearly achieve the theoretical optimal multiplexing gain. We also discuss MAC
and higher layer aspects of a practical deployment. To the best of our
knowledge, AirSync offers the first ever realization of the full multiuser MIMO
gain, namely the ability to increase the number of wireless clients linearly
with the number of jointly coordinated access points, without reducing the per
client rate.Comment: Submitted to Transactions on Networkin
Multiuser Switched Diversity Scheduling Schemes
Multiuser switched-diversity scheduling schemes were recently proposed in
order to overcome the heavy feedback requirements of conventional opportunistic
scheduling schemes by applying a threshold-based, distributed, and ordered
scheduling mechanism. The main idea behind these schemes is that slight
reduction in the prospected multiuser diversity gains is an acceptable
trade-off for great savings in terms of required channel-state-information
feedback messages. In this work, we characterize the achievable rate region of
multiuser switched diversity systems and compare it with the rate region of
full feedback multiuser diversity systems. We propose also a novel proportional
fair multiuser switched-based scheduling scheme and we demonstrate that it can
be optimized using a practical and distributed method to obtain the feedback
thresholds. We finally demonstrate by numerical examples that
switched-diversity scheduling schemes operate within 0.3 bits/sec/Hz from the
ultimate network capacity of full feedback systems in Rayleigh fading
conditions.Comment: Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Communications, to appear 2012,
funded by NPRP grant 08-577-2-241 from QNR
Network-Coded Multiple Access
This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates a first wireless local
area network (WLAN) system that jointly exploits physical-layer network coding
(PNC) and multiuser decoding (MUD) to boost system throughput. We refer to this
multiple access mode as Network-Coded Multiple Access (NCMA). Prior studies on
PNC mostly focused on relay networks. NCMA is the first realized multiple
access scheme that establishes the usefulness of PNC in a non-relay setting.
NCMA allows multiple nodes to transmit simultaneously to the access point (AP)
to boost throughput. In the non-relay setting, when two nodes A and B transmit
to the AP simultaneously, the AP aims to obtain both packet A and packet B
rather than their network-coded packet. An interesting question is whether
network coding, specifically PNC which extracts packet (A XOR B), can still be
useful in such a setting. We provide an affirmative answer to this question
with a novel two-layer decoding approach amenable to real-time implementation.
Our USRP prototype indicates that NCMA can boost throughput by 100% in the
medium-high SNR regime (>=10dB). We believe further throughput enhancement is
possible by allowing more than two users to transmit together
Energy-Efficient Power Control in Multipath CDMA Channels via Large System Analysis
This paper is focused on the design and analysis of power control procedures
for the uplink of multipath code-division-multiple-access (CDMA) channels based
on the large system analysis (LSA). Using the tools of LSA, a new decentralized
power control algorithm aimed at energy efficiency maximization and requiring
very little prior information on the interference background is proposed;
moreover, it is also shown that LSA can be used to predict with good accuracy
the performance and operational conditions of a large network operating at the
equilibrium over a multipath channel, i.e. the power,
signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and utility profiles across
users, wherein the utility is defined as the number of bits reliably delivered
to the receiver for each energy-unit used for transmission. Additionally, an
LSA-based performance comparison among linear receivers is carried out in terms
of achieved energy efficiency at the equilibrium. Finally, the problem of the
choice of the utility-maximizing training length is also considered. Numerical
results show a very satisfactory agreement of the theoretical analysis with
simulation results obtained with reference to systems with finite (and not so
large) numbers of users.Comment: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor
and Mobile Radio Communications, Cannes, France, September 15-18, 200
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