2 research outputs found
Downlink Noncoherent Cooperation without Transmitter Phase Alignment
Multicell joint processing can mitigate inter-cell interference and thereby
increase the spectral efficiency of cellular systems. Most previous work has
assumed phase-aligned (coherent) transmissions from different base transceiver
stations (BTSs), which is difficult to achieve in practice. In this work, a
noncoherent cooperative transmission scheme for the downlink is studied, which
does not require phase alignment. The focus is on jointly serving two users in
adjacent cells sharing the same resource block. The two BTSs partially share
their messages through a backhaul link, and each BTS transmits a superposition
of two codewords, one for each receiver. Each receiver decodes its own message,
and treats the signals for the other receiver as background noise. With
narrowband transmissions the achievable rate region and maximum achievable
weighted sum rate are characterized by optimizing the power allocation (and the
beamforming vectors in the case of multiple transmit antennas) at each BTS
between its two codewords. For a wideband (multicarrier) system, a dual
formulation of the optimal power allocation problem across sub-carriers is
presented, which can be efficiently solved by numerical methods. Results show
that the proposed cooperation scheme can improve the sum rate substantially in
the low to moderate signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) range.Comment: 30 pages, 6 figures, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communication
On the MISO Channel with Feedback: Can Infinitely Massive Antennas Achieve Infinite Capacity?
We consider communication over a multiple-input single-output (MISO) block
fading channel in the presence of an independent noiseless feedback link. We
assume that the transmitter and receiver have no prior knowledge of the channel
state realizations, but the transmitter and receiver can acquire the channel
state information (CSIT/CSIR) via downlink training and feedback. For this
channel, we show that increasing the number of transmit antennas to infinity
will not achieve an infinite capacity, for a finite channel coherence length
and a finite input constraint on the second or fourth moment. This insight
follows from our new capacity bounds that hold for any linear and nonlinear
coding strategies, and any channel training schemes. In addition to the channel
capacity bounds, we also provide a characterization on the beamforming gain
that is also known as array gain or power gain, at the regime with a large
number of antennas.Comment: This work has been submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Information
Theory. It was presented in part at ISIT201